Community colleges like new attention, need money

Politicians and policymakers are lavishing unprecedented attention on community colleges, promoting them as engines to train workers in the recession and boost the country’s college graduation rates.

Where rhetoric meets reality on campus, you’ll find people like Tania DeLeon, a student at Folsom Lake College in California who can’t get into the classes she wants, must shuttle between two campuses 45 minutes apart and is spending spring break earning a paycheck so she can pay for gas and graduate on time.

By Eric Gorski, The Associated Press

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-04-05-community-college_N.htm

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