Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Survey offers dire picture of California's two-year colleges (LA Times)
As demand increases but funding is cut, 470,000 students find themselves on waiting lists for needed classes. Things will get worse if further cuts become necessary.

     More than 470,000 community college students are beginning the fall semester on waiting lists, unable to get into the courses they need, according to a survey of California's two-year colleges that captures a system struggling amid severe budget cuts. (continued…

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do our leaders at the district and college level support the November tax initiative that would begin to address this? Does our old friend assmeblyman Don Wagner support it?

Anonymous said...

There should be a Prop 30 information table on each campus every day. This is dire and no one seems to care.

Anonymous said...

Other colleges are sponsoring informational forums and distributing information. I do believe that if people understood what was at stake they'd support Prop 30 even in Orange County.

I have always wondered by we don't have voter registration drives on campus.

Maybe ASIVC can do something.

Anonymous said...



http://www.cbs8.com/story/19319111/gov-brown-at-city-college-rally-for-prop-30

Anonymous said...

No more taxes!

Anonymous said...

Wagner and the right wingers are just fine with the demise of affordable public education. Part of the scenario.

Anonymous said...

No more taxes! No more schools!

Anonymous said...

NO more PUBLIC schools.

Anonymous said...

Big govt. and that includes schools, must be rolled back! No more taxes for failed pie in the sky programs!

Roy Bauer said...

12:44, here's what you need to do. Create your own blog and make your Libertarian pronouncements there all day long. Try to get somebody to read that stuff. Good luck on that.
But don't simply make your Libertarian pronouncements here. Good God, man, you don't even provide arguments, reasons. You should be making them on talk radio, not here. Please go away. Find your own kind. Be with them and please, do not be with us.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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