California universities are caught in the middle of a fight between President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Newsom threatened all colleges who sign an agreement with the Trump administration regarding the president’s education agenda to withhold billions in state funding.

Driving the news: The Trump administration issued the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education on Thursday, a 10-point agreement centering on equality in admissions, allowing a marketplace of ideas and civil discourse, nondiscrimination in faculty and administrative hiring and institutional neutrality. • Other points in the compact include guaranteed single-sex spaces for women and controlling costs to bring tuition prices down, among other directives. • The Trump administration sent the compact to

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