After President Obama announced a goal last year to make community college free for all Americans, no state has moved as aggressively as California. In 2016, at least 20 programs offering support to incoming community college students were introduced in California, bringing the state’s total to about 30, according to the federal Department of Education… California’s 113 community colleges have become an increasingly attractive option for families looking for alternatives to the state’s public universities, where academic competition has grown fierce and tuitions have tripled since 2000. The University of California’s undergraduate tuition and fees are now roughly $13,500 a year for in-state students and $40,000 for out-of-staters, well above the national averages for public universities.

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by Mike McPhate, The New York Times.

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