Junior Colleges Are Vital to U.S. Job Training
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President Clinton has made a commitment to put education, job training and retraining at the top of his plan to revitalize and strengthen the U.S. economy. Here in Orange County, the Coast Community College District is our largest provider of workplace training and retraining for local residents.
If workplace training is as important to our local efforts to help people get jobs as President Clinton indicates, it is crazy for the state to propose cutting funding to community colleges by 11% and raise student tuition by 200%. A recent study by the California Postsecondary Education Commission reported that most community college students come from homes with less than $24,000 income.
If we are going to have an educated and trained work force, making it tougher to get into a community college is not the solution. Let’s keep our community’s No. 1 job training center--our community college--open to everyone who can benefit, not just those who can afford to pay higher and higher enrollment fees.
PATRICIA KRONE
Newport Beach
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