June graduates from Culver City High school looking to attend a UC or California State School are facing the grim reality of cuts and more cuts—and with them, a higher price tag for higher education.

California Governor-elect Jerry Brown provided a grim forecast of the state's budget during a briefing at UCLA for state school officials on Tuesday.

Brown told local school officials and the chancellors of the University of California and California State University systems that more cuts to the state's education system are likely.

''We will do everything we can to minimize cuts to public schools,'' Brown said. ''I can't promise you there won't be more cuts because there will be.''

Brown told the roughly 200 people at the briefing that the state's financial situation is worse than it was in the Great Depression.

''We're at an unprecedented moment of reckoning,'' Brown said. ''This perfect storm, I think, is the worst it's ever been because we're not quite in the same position in the Depression, where government played a small, much smaller role in the life of our communities as it does today.''

Tuesday's briefing continued the series of discussions Brown has held about the budget since being elected. Brown said at a briefing for state and local government officials in Sacramento Wednesday that the state faces a $28.1 billion budget deficit through June 2012, more than originally reported.

Hear what Brown said about the importance of state funding for education and how he plans to reduce the budget in the governor's office by 20 percent in order to help trim the state's deficit.

 City News Service contributed to this report.