UC Berkeley is reducing the number of subsidized childcare places available for low-income students with young children as part of its campus-wide cost-cutting program.

“It’s the last thing we want to do but we have no other option,” says Marty Takimoto, Communications Director at Cal’s Residential and Student Service Programs which oversees childcare for students. The move has met with resistance from many parents who use the university’s childcare services and a 250-signature petition protesting the cuts has been … Continue reading »