The heads of the University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges spent the day lobbying state lawmakers and the governor's office to make higher education a priority as they prepare to put together a new spending plan for 2012-13. Community colleges would be cut another $298 million, forcing colleges to slash course offerings, lay off staff and take on additional borrowing. Brown's initiative would fund education and public safety programs by temporarily raising income taxes on people who make more than $250,000 a year and temporarily increasing the sales tax by a quarter cent. Kevin Feliciano, 23, a public administration major at Ohlone College in Fremont, said budget cuts have reduced course offerings to the point where students can get only one or two classes they need instead of four or five. Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, on Tuesday criticized a proposed executive compensation policy by the CSU's Board of Trustees, which would allow the use of university foundation money to give raises to administrators. In March, CSU trustees approved 10 percent pay hikes for two campus presidents just as administrators outlined a plan for sweeping cuts that will deny admission to thousands of students.
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