Daily Debriefing
California residents voted against a $6-billion cut to public education spending and granted Democrats a supermajority in both houses of the state legislature in Tuesday's election, Inside Higher Ed reported. Proposition 30, a sales and income tax increase initiative projected to raise $34 billion in new revenue over the next seven years, passed with 54 percent of the vote. While the tax hike prevents further cuts to the University of California and California State University systems this year, Proposition 30 is expected to provide long-term stabilization as opposed to radical transformation of California's educational system, according to Inside Higher Ed. With a democratic supermajority in the state legislature for the first time since 1933, Democrats will not need Republican support to bypass certain legislative actions and overrule vetoes by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.