Good colleges work with sizeable budgets, covering primarily operating costs, such as high salaries and annual maintenance, and capital investment in new buildings, sporting facilities and the like. Yet, despite the high costs of education demand for places in good colleges remains high and places are always in short supply. Naturally, the budgets of

Despite all the negative viewpoints and publicity that the current State education system receives, there continue to be those who believe that things are heading in the right direction. Supporters of market driven education believe that unless more “privatization” is introduced these institutions will gradually deteriorate and will be unable to provide the quality education elite schools now offer. One such person is Joseph Fink, president of Dominican College and author of the article Independents Can Help Solve Higher Education Problems. In his article Fink states, "Hikes in student fees at state-supported colleges are inevitable because of the budget shortfall, but the majority of students in the UC and CSU systems can easily afford the costs of their education, and financial programs are available or can be made so for those who cannot…We continue as a society to subsidize the Higher Education of students from the state's upper middle class and wealthy families" (1). Supporters also argue that coverage on budget and education issues were biased and therefore inaccurate. In their opinion authors had too much personal connection and sentiment since they themselves were California residents. In his study of media coverage, George Kaplan author of The Mass Media's Version of America's Schools, concluded that when it comes to education, the print and electronic media were not doing as well as they should. Kaplan argues, “. . . around the nation some education writers are still missing the story behind the news. Repeatedly, their digging fails to illuminate such obvious issues as what school restructuring really means and what lies behind it, where educational research stands and its usefulness to the schools, and why, not just whether, thousands of high school students reach graduation time ignorant, uncaring, barely literate, and unable to perform simple calculations. Far too many reporters and editors shower their audiences with anecdotes and true-to-life vignettes while neglecting the larger trends that illustrate their meaning" (23). However despite these arguments, the opposition against the current California State and UC education system cont

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