Araceli Cortes, an illegal immigrant who wants to go to medical school, is shown at her home in the Los Angeles-area suburb of Canyon Country, Calif., Tuesday, June 26, 2012. Cortes had made up her mind to return to Mexico to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. She quit her job, purchased an airline ticket and reserved a seat to take a medical school entrance exam. Then, a week before her departure, President Barack Obama announced that young illegal immigrants like Cortes would be given the chance to remain in the United States and obtain a work visa. Cortes canceled her ticket and decided to stay. But she’s still having second thoughts. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Araceli Cortes, an illegal immigrant who wants to go to medical school, is shown at her home in the Los Angeles-area suburb of Canyon Country, Calif., Tuesday, June 26, 2012. Cortes had made up her mind to return to Mexico to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. She quit her job, purchased an airline ticket and reserved a seat to take a medical school entrance exam. Then, a week before her departure, President Barack Obama announced that young illegal immigrants like Cortes would be given the chance to remain in the United States and obtain a work visa. Cortes canceled her ticket and decided to stay. But she’s still having second thoughts. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL Oct. 24; chart shows the price of a 4-year education
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In this Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 photo, students study in a library on the campus of California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. The tectonic shifts in the economics of higher education, with costs shifting from the states to families and the federal government, are on display across the country, though perhaps nowhere more vividly than in places like the California State University system, which educates 427,000 students. CSU, which saw state cuts of $750 million this year alone, has said it will have to increase tuition again as soon as this winter if a state ballot initiative that would provide more funding fails to pass on Election Day. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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In this Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 photo, graduate student Pedro Ramirez is photographed in front of a Proposition 30 sign on the campus of California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. Proposition 30, which includes a temporary quarter-cent increase in the statewide sales tax and higher income taxes on those who make more than $250,000 a year, faces a well-funded opposition campaign that claims the $6 billion the higher taxes would generate each year would not help schools. "We tell them if you don't vote you're literally going to be voting for a tuition increase," said Ramirez, a graduate student at Cal State-Long Beach who is working to rally student support for the ballot measure. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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In this Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 photo, graduate student Pedro Ramirez, right, talks with Associated Students Inc. Vice President Jonathon Bolin on the campus of California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. Ramirez says he managed to finish his undergraduate degree from another CSU campus in Fresno last year without student loans - but not without credit card debt. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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This Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 photo shows King Alexander, president of California State University, Long Beach, on the campus in Long Beach, Calif. Cal State-Long Beach's tuition of $6,800 is below the national average, which helps explain why it got 78,000 applications last year, said Alexander. But prices are $2,000 higher than two years ago, only partly offsetting cuts of $4,000 per student from the state, and have hit hard low-income students (the CSU system is the largest recipient of Pell Grants, which go mostly to students from families earning under $40,000, in the country). (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Gov. Patrick, students press for education funding
BOSTON (AP) — Gov.
Deval Patrick is urging students from the
University of Massachusetts and community colleges to press lawmakers to back his education proposal.
Patrick addressed hundreds of students at a rally at the Statehouse Monday, saying an affordable college education is good for students and the economy.
Patrick included an additional $550 million in education spending in his proposed budget for the new fiscal year.
The proposal would increase funding to the MASSGrant program, which provides financial assistance for lower income students.
The extra spending would be funded by a hike in taxes, including an increase in the state's income tax rate from 5.25 percent to 6.25 percent.
Massachusetts Republican Party Chairwoman Kirsten Hughes said Patrick is trying to persuade students to support tax increases that hurt them and their families by eliminating higher education-related deductions.
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