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Invested in the higher education. what they found the -- economists found every dollar invested in cal state university system, over time it produced $4 in return to the state. so it is a good investment. in the '80s '90s we began cutting back so that in -- in the '80s, the -- in california, high education was 17% of the state budget. that's now down to 9%. prisons by contrast were 3% of the state budget and now 10%. they are spending more on prisons than spending on higher education. and i -- you have latest cutbacks and tuition increases. coming because of the recession. and you have an expl...

Carey, he's the policy director with education sector, a rowlando said i think there are too many kids in the public college system. standards have been lowered and it puts a strain on the system. what do you think? >> i disagree. i think more students need college today than ever before, and the tragedy about rising tuition is the students who need a college edcation the most are the first-generation students, the low-income students and they are the ones that will have the hardest time paying for it. >> is there another alternative here, and that is that making sure that everybody, one of th...

College of agriculture. arizona is considering tuition increases in excess of 30%. georgia educators say funding proposed cuts next year through tuition increases would hike rates 77% a more likely scenario would involve a combination of smaller tuition increases and layoffs of professors and potentially the elimination of entire degree programs. >> what's at stake, of course, is the quality of public education going forward. we have to continue to make it accessible, affordable, and high quality. and it takes money to do that. >> as educators and lawmakers haggle over the budget, students wil...

Go up as much as 77 percent, but a more likely scenario you'd see is a combination of smaller tuition increases , the elimination of certain programs, and layoffs of professors, which educators say would have a sweeping impact. listen to this. >> what's at stake, of course, is the quality of public education going forward. we have to continue to make it accessible, affordable and high quality. and it takes money to do that. >> there are some areas of the budget that we just absolutely cannot cut. we have a prison population of 50,000 people, we're going to dump them out on the people of georgi...

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