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Brazil's dismal education standards are too low for the world's No. 6 economy and threaten to stunt the nation's development.
Officials seek $15 million for UC Riverside's medical school and $45 million for a classroom building at UC Merced.
Buoyed by the passage of Prop. 30, the university systems ask for the funds to boost enrollment and maintain other programs. Gov. Brown warns them to control costs.
Gov. Jerry Brown says the increases would be ill-timed. Cal State was looking to impose new fees to hasten graduation for some students. UC shelves plan to add fees to graduate programs.
The actions were made possible by passage of Proposition 30. Members also approve a resolution to charge fees when charters claim more space on traditional campuses than they need.
Some for-profit schools take advantage of GI Bill veterans, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars without educating them.
The Christensen Math Science and Technology Center in San Pedro is a beleaguered survivor of the Los Angeles Unified School District's budget cuts.
The university hosts more foreign students than any other U.S. school, about 9,269, up about 7% from the year before, a study shows. UCLA was sixth nationally in international students.
The youngest UC campus is trying to balance the needs of a growing student body against state budget problems. Projected enrollment has been scaled back, as have plans for developing open space into campus buildings.
Nicholas B. Dirks, who will succeed Robert J. Birgeneau, oversees 29 academic departments at the New York campus. He has also been a history and anthropology professor.
College students will be spared tuition increases, thousands of classes will be restored, and younger students will avoid a shorter school year, they say.
The new measures will restrict late-night entrance to the campus and require identification checks for all visitors between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. Four people were shot last week.
Los Angeles Unified School District's parent centers offer free classes that focus on parents' needs, from helping their children with their homework to learning English.
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