Over 20,000 students and faculty from California's community colleges protested budget cuts in Sacramento this week.

Schools across California are gearing up for the "March in March", a protest in the state's capitol in effort to prevent the proposed budget cuts of Governor Jerry Brown,which could drop Santa Monica College's budget by 20 percent.

Budget cuts almost always mean education will suffer, Guiliana Dakdouk questions why something so important is so frequently losing funding.