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Schwarzenegger Calls for Prioritizing Higher Ed over Prisons in the State Constititution/9th Cir. Strikes down Washington's Felon Disenfranchisement

By Jonathan Simor

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger used his annual state of the state address to call for a constitutional amendment to guarantee that at least 10 percent of the state's general fund revenues go for higher education, while prison expenditures are limited to 7 percent. [read his press release]. The Governor stated that expenditures had traditionally been 10 percent for higher education and 3 percent for corrections (actually it was nearly 20 percent when I was a student here). Noting that this year corrections received more money than higher education, the Governor is calling for an amendment that will fix the ratio beginning in 2014.The proposal is bold and deserves support (although adding yet more layers to our Rube Goldberg state constitution is a problem in its own right)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).