What’s the need here?
Community colleges wouldn’t be necessary to teach the basics, if the public high schools improved their performance, but Mr. Obama isn’t going to point that out as it doesn’t look well for the NEA.
As far as technical education, America already has a plethora of proprietary schools teaching everything from computers to tattooing. How fair is it for a businessman who owns such a school to get increased competition from the government who doesn’t concern itself with profits?
McCain got hammered for saying the same thing in Michigan.
Not true. Community college can be a stepping stone to four year university, not glorified high school. It isn't for "teaching the basics." Also some of the best tech education around. Maybe the value of the community college depends on its locale.
Admittedly now they've dumbed down some of the classes at the community college because the kids coming out of high school cannot keep up. That wasn't the case when I attended,not such a piece of cake back in "the day."
I liked being able to live at home with my family a few extra years. Saved lots of money by going that route and then transferring to the university.