Land Use,
Education Law
Mar. 14, 2022
Lawmakers work around court's Berkeley student cap
On Friday, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, and Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, introduced SB 118. The bill gives higher education leaders 18 months to address California Environmental Quality Act issues before decisions impacting enrollment growth can be issued.
Calling a recent state Supreme Court decision to deny a petition for review and application for stay "misguided," two Democrat legislators introduced a bill that could circumvent a student enrollment cap at Berkeley in a move that appears to have bipartisan support.
"We would like to see this problem fixed. There are 3,000 students who are expecting to go to a premier university and they are being prohibited from doing that because of bad ...
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