Let’em eat some more cake!

Community Colleges See Demand Spike, Funding Slip
by: Valerie Strauss
Excerpt:
Hundreds of thousands of students are likely to be turned away from low-cost community colleges across the country over the next year because of funding cuts at the very time that record numbers of students are flocking to the open-admission schools, according to education officials.

Comment:
Wed, 07/01/2009 - 23:20 — David (not verified)
Of course they're cutting funding just as the need is increasing! Like school vouchers, public subsidy of private education, higher student-teacher ratios, elimination of arts ed, and all the rest, this is just another piece of the systematic conversion of the middle class into an undereducated, underinsured, and underpaid working class that will have no choice but to support the tiny upper class, as we fight among ourselves for whatever crumbs are cast before us. God bless America.
http://www.truthout.org/070109EDA

To support the above comment, I remember when Sen. John McCain strenuously opposed a new Education Bill for members of the military. He wanted them to stay in the armed services and remain without college degrees. I do not know what happened to the bill but as I recall, there was some strange logic involved in his reasoning.
As always,
BB