Mayor calls for 'radical conversation'

Renewing his call on business to work with government in a "radical conversation in the middle," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Wednesday urged local business leaders to help solve the state's problems and boost its commitment to education.Daily News.

By increasing tuition while cutting the budgets of public colleges and universities, he said, "we are pricing the middle class out of education."

"We are making it that so many people can no longer get the education they need to get ahead."
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