$12 billion proposal would boost community colleges

From The New York Times: The Obama administration is proposing to spend $12 billion to bolster the nation’s network of community colleges. Most of the funding would go toward programs enticing community colleges to do more to lift graduation rates and better prepare students for jobs. Some would go to the modernizing of facilities as well, and some to the development of an Internet curriculum available to students everywhere.

SIDEBAR: Obama's community college proposal is widely seen by educators as explicit recognition of the two-year colleges’ importance to the economy.