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

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

Now the LAO (LegislativeAnalyst’s Office) thinks that some kind of replacement for CPEC is needed tomonitor higher ed.  LAO seems to wantperformance standards, much of which deals with flows into and out of higher edinstitutions.

It is interesting that the state generally, not just theLAO, feels that the less the state pays for higher ed, the more it should havea 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-gonesyndrome: