As a Community College Student, how significant is each dollar regarding your education? Some argue California Community College students can pay more! How much is your education worth to YOU?
Can you appreciate the real value of the California Community College 'opportunity'?
When you really work for it, yes you can!

California's community college system gets students into school,
but not always out

By Justin Pope

ASSOCIATED PRESS

9:18 a.m. July 14, 2007

SAN DIEGO – For most of history, higher education has been reserved for a tiny elite.

For a glimpse of a future where college is open to all, visit California – the place that now comes closest to that ideal.

California's community college system is the country's largest, with 109 campuses, 4,600 buildings and a staggering 2.5 million students. It's also cheap. While it's no longer free, anyone can take a class, and at about $500 per term full-time, the price is a fraction of any other state's.
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It's the day after Super Tuesday, and the voters have decided Prop. 92's fate, at least for now. Community college fees will stay as they are, and other options will have to be examined on how to maintain funding to California's community college system. The failure is not about funding the colleges per se but how funds are allocated and under what controls of accountability. Read more below:

Initiative to secure more community college funding fails

By MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Writer

Article Launched: 02/06/2008 02:02:27 AM PST

BERKELEY, Calif.—Voters rejected a plan to secure more state dollars for California's community colleges, but supporters say the campaign succeeded at drawing attention to the funding woes of the massive system.
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