>>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.
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>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?
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>Tamar

That seems to vary with the state and county.
Before finishing up at Penn State, my son got an associate's degree at Nassau Community college on Long Island.
For Nassau county residents like us there were fees of a few hundred dollars per semester.

Here at Mercer county community college in New Jersey, students with good high school grades get free tuition and the others pay tuition of a couple of thousand a year - a fraction of the comparable cost at private schools. Hardship cases get pretty liberal consideration.

In both cases those systems seem to be working well under state and local control.
I don't see why the feds have to be involved.