Community colleges lack money to serve the flood of students the economy is sending

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<p>"Demand for their classes is at a record high, rising by an average of 10 percent over the past year, the community college association said, but the funding isn’t there to meet it.</p>

<p>Community colleges are supposed to be open access — accepting all comers — but the association said that tens of thousands of students have been turned away and that hundreds of thousands more will likely shut out in the future.</p>

<p>In California, the San Diego Community College District alone estimated that the state’s funding crisis had forced it to deny admission to more than 7,000 students. At the same time, state community college administrators are reviewing a plan to cut up to 5 percent of the system’s classes, even as enrollment in the state’s 110 two-year institutions has grown by 10 percent in the past year. ..."
Community</a> colleges squeezed from both sides - Education- msnbc.com</p>

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<p>And this comes at a time when the high schools are cutting back on their summer school offerings limiting them to remedial classes. My S and D are planning to take classes at the comm. coll. and hopefully they'll get in.</p>