<p>I’m with lookingforward. I am not convinced that community college, and its cost structure, is the right venue for remedial education, when a full-time year of K-12 education is less costly for a much larger number of hours of instruction. A 2010 study indicates that the median national cost to the institutions of a year of community college is $9,291 per student. Night school (or day school, which is being done in quite a few cities) for adult learners offered through the K-12 system would be substantially less costly, could bring more support into place for those with learning disabilities or major structural gaps (particularly in reading and math), and would put the onus back on to the K-12 system where it belongs. It might also gives students an incentive to push harder so as to avoid the need for this kind of remedial education at all.</p>
<p>Quite a few urban school districts have offered services under this model, typically at very low cost to the student, or even free. Students with significant reading deficiencies might be better served in a library-based adult literacy program.</p>