Instead, Kuhn says the governor should push a plan for modest and predicable tuition increases, and students and the universities should share the burden.

"It would be a cost-sharing agreement," says Kuhn. "For example , the state would bear 70 percent of the cost increases ... and students would bear 30 percent."

When it comes to the governor's overall approach to funding UC and CSU, Kuhn says Brown is wrong once again.

He wants to give the systems flexibility in how they spend their share of state funding. But Kuhn says that hands-off approach means important programs may fall by the wayside.

"It takes the Legislature's job away from them," says Kuhn. "Instead of [the Legislature] making important decisions about student access, student success, faculties and facilities, [the governor] would delegate all that to the [educational] systems."

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