LAO seems to really miss CPEC now that it's gone

As readers of earlier blog posts will know, Governor Brown line-item vetoed CPEC (California Postsecondary Education Commission) out of existence by eliminating its funding in the current year state budget.  CPEC was created to coordinate and evaluate the provision of higher ed in California under the Master Plan – public and private.

Now the LAO (Legislative Analyst’s Office) thinks that some kind of replacement for CPEC is needed to monitor higher ed.  LAO seems to want performance standards, much of which deals with flows into and out of higher ed institutions.

It is interesting that the state generally, not just the LAO, feels that the less the state pays for higher ed, the more it should have a say in what goes on there.

Anyway, you can find a new LAO report on this matter at http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/edu/ihe/improving-higher-education-010612.pdf.

This development may be part of the you’ll-miss-me-when-I’m-gone syndrome: