>With regard to Community Colleges - guaranteeing a federal revenue stream to these institutions is a potential incentive for corruption. The incentive to recruit warm bodies will be strong.
>The plan includes the requirement that the students maintain a 2.5 GPA, but the institution receiving the money is the same one doing the grading.
>Funding for community colleges should come from states and counties who can make better decisions for their locales than Washington bureaucrats.

ISTR that when community colleges started to be a thing (late 60's/early 70's?), they were free. Am I remembering wrong (quite possible since I was just a kid then) or was that a local phenomenon?

Tamar