Gloria Penner on Challenges High Tech Businesses Face With Young Work Force

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Published April 9, 2008 at 10:03 AM PDT

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Gov. Schwarzenegger proposes to cut $4.8 billion in education funding in the new fiscal year. This at a time when many high-tech and biotech companies feel that American students are not prepared to

Tom Fudge: As the state of California decides how to balance its budget, education spending goes on the chopping block. It's too early to tell how much will be cut, and many groups have stepped up to say that the state cannot afford to cut education any more.

Among the people saying this are San Diegans who head up local high-tech companies. They say the shortage of young Californians who are well educated in science is forcing them to look overseas for employees. But even that isn't a good answer, given the shortage of American work visas for high tech employees.

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Gloria Penner , political correspondent and host of Editors Roundtable for KPBS. She also writes a weekly political blog for KPBS.org.