Proposal

     Our entire country is in an economic crisis, and one of the most important public services is suffering the most. Public education and Higher education in California are suffering from an extremely low budget with only more budget cuts to look forward too. A Proposition focusing on business owners and citizens with an income over 250,000 dollars a year may be the solution to pull our public education system out of the plunge. As a college student myself it is hard to ignore the state of our economy. Our state budget has an effect on all of us, even a middle class average student in Santa Cruz. Besides students, this proposition will benefit everyone in the state since it also gives revenue to other necessary public services such as public safety. Young people in California need to make a decision on Proposition 30, it will undoubtfully shape our future as a state and country.

     Not only am I a student at a California communnity college, but I also rely on state funded financial aid financial aid to attend school. I have a background of attending Private Catholic schools from first to tenth grade and have also experienced public high school and community colleges. I can speak as someone who has witnessed and experienced alterior forms of education.
Any reader could trust my judgement on our state's school system because I can contrast it towards other forms of education.
  
     My mother was an  immigrant from Mexico, her entire family moving to this area to pick and handle produce. Since childhood my mother has engrained in me the importance of education. My saintly mother also worked very hard to send me to the best private college - prep schools in her area. I recognize my mother and her strength, and understand how important it is to seek out my degree, and go for it. My own mother, a graduate from Santa Clara University, makes alot more money than her mother before her, but not nearly enough to afford the tuition of a UC or California state school. Will all of my mother's hard work be for nothing? Will my dream of obtaining a degree be unobtainable without Proposition 30?

     We are experiencing a budget cut already here at Cabrillo College - 400 classes have been cut already in the last few years. Proposition 30 based on a income tax increase on anyone earning more than 250,000 dollars a year, and in turn provides funding for K through 12th grade and higher education in California. If Proposition 30 does pass not only does public education benefit, but 5.6 billion dollars in funding is freed up and available for other public services like health care.
 I would hope that with these facts I have presented, the public wouldn't be able to ignore the potential gain that could come from the passing of Proposition 30, and would see it is necessary for our state right now.