Faculty members, staff and students at CSU Stanislaus, Fresno and San Bernardino held events last week demanding that Central Valley and Inland Empire legislators “Stand up for California” and for higher education.

After $1 billion in cuts made to the CSU and University of California systems earlier this year, Governor Brown’s budget plan calls for maintaining current revenues so California won’t have to make even deeper cuts to education that is so critical to our future.

These students and educators are among families, seniors, parents, business owners and others who have put aside their differences to support Governor Brown’s balanced approach to closing the state’s budget gap and move California’s economic recovery forward. The governor’s plan includes cuts he has already signed into law and a proposal to maintain existing revenues that has been held up by partisan gridlock.

For more information on how more budget cuts will hurt education and California’s future prosperity, visit www.standupforca.org.