Community colleges may not be able to handle surge of students

July 1, 2009
More students are enrolling in tough economy, but funding cuts make it difficult for schools to accommodate enrollment growth

From The Washington Post: Hundreds of thousands of students across the country are likely to be turned away from low-cost community colleges 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.

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