UC’s new motto: Take the money and run

◼ link - Debra J. Saunders/SF Chronicle via Americans for Prosperity California

When Gov. Brown pushed Prop 30 in 2012, he sold his measure with the promise that the income and sales tax increases in his measure would put off sharp tuition increases in the higher education systems. Two short years later after state budgets that heralded a 4-year deal to keep tuition flat, UC solons say there never was a deal to freeze tuition. At the urging of UC President Janet Napolitano, the UC Board of Regents voted last month to raise tuition substantially — by up to 28% over 5 years — because there never was a meeting at which university officials pledged not to raise fees.

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◼ “No one should believe that we are simply going willy-nilly and using any kind of data that we can gather,” she said. - CNN

Still, she acknowledged the federal government hasn’t done the best job of keeping the public informed about how it is treating the enormous amounts of personal information that could potentially be used in intelligence gathering.

“I think we need to do a better job of explaining to the American people exactly what is kept, what are the real restrictions on how—I’m just talking now for DHS, Department of Homeland Security–how we use it, how long we can keep it, how we share it, all those thing,” she explained.

Ms. Napolitano added that striking the right balance between security and civil liberties is always a challenge.