How do you ruin a state? Gut its education system. How do you get away with it? Quick knife work. A small group of political appointees in Sacramento who have mounted an unprecedented attack on California’s incomparable community college system is carving fast. By May, unless we defeat some nefarious bills, we will be inaugurating a new era of inequity and social upheaval… It’s heartbreaking to see tough but temporary budget problems used to permanently, disastrously change a great system. The reality is that these proposals are part of a larger movement of educational reformers to enact a college version of No Child Left Behind, which penalizes schools for students’ performance. The college version will endanger California’s economic future just as community colleges gear up to train the new workforce.

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by Leah Halper, The San Jose Mercury News.

Posted: March 15th, 2012, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.