Is outsourcing community college education serving students?
California Community Colleges’ deal with for-profit Kaplan University has a few catches — among them Kaplan’s higher costs and the question of whether its credits would even be transferable… But there’s a better way to protect the students — by giving the community colleges adequate state funding, so they’re not forced to fill their course requirements at institutions that keep one eye on academics and the other on the main chance.
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by Michael Hiltzik, The Los Angeles Times.