By Khalida Sarwari
Members of the California State University community will hold a rally in Hayward today to protest Proposition 1A, a ballot measure they claim will close future funding for public higher education.
The measure would increase the size of the state’s rainy day fund from 5 percent to 12.5 percent, using general fund revenues, from which the state would be able to draw only during economic hardship, and has been one of the most controversial of the six-measure state budget reform package that California voters will decide on at a special election on Tuesday.
Protesters will gather at 4:30 p.m. at the corner of Foothill Boulevard, Jackson Street and Mission Boulevard.