community colleges help separate the wheat from the shaft

It is always funny to me when the left (i.e., Gatto) and the far right (i.e., Charlotte Iserbyt) point out the same problems in education, and blame the other side for them! The article below should settle the debate and make it clear that at this point in time, it is the right (eh, it is central now but it doesn't change it's nature), like I said, the right in power are destroying the education in the US.

Bush boosts nation's community colleges

President pushes for federal support of job programs
The Associated Press
Updated: 3:05 p.m. ET March 2, 2005

[both the far left and far right would have massive heart attacks upon reading the title alone]


ARNOLD, Md. - President Bush, pushing for more flexibility in job training programs, said Wednesday that the federal government needs to support community colleges because they are available and affordable to meet the needs of modern-day workers.

[he should have said 'worker-bees' to cement his point]

“We must never lose sight of the need to have an education system ... that’s capable of keeping this country competitive by adjusting to the workplace as it really is,” Bush said at Anne Arundel Community College. “I have come to herald success.”

[it all starts with the education, that' right. The education creates the modern assembly line workplace, and will do so more efficiently in the future]


Bush has proposed doubling the number of Americans who get job-training help from the government, as a way to restore lost jobs. He aims to do that in part by consolidating federal job-training programs, but is also striving for broader change.

[consolidate means cut]

He wants to require accountability in certain programs,

[like No Child Left Behind - if you don't teach to test, we'll cut your funding even more]

give states more flexibility and provide $250 million to community colleges that design courses in partnership with the needs of local employers. He also wants to create personal job training accounts that give the unemployed federal money for services aimed at helping them get back to work.

['personal job training account' is a euphemism for taking away whatever meager unemployment benefits. This expression, btw, is straight from Frank Luntz's republican speak manual, which in itself is a reason to be very, veru cautious about it]

The president’s latest budget request asks Congress for $125 million to promote dual-enrollment programs that allow high school students to earn college credit.
“Community colleges are available,” Bush said, sitting in a gymnasium in front of a sign that said “Jobs and Growth.” “They are affordable and they are flexible.”

[this is exactly what I call "sepataring the wheat from the shaft". Detour the 'dumb' kids, i.e., the majority, into community colleges for job training, and the select few will enjoy genuine education, allowing them to take their fathers' place as a ruling elite]


Bush’s proposed consolidation of federal job-training efforts is aimed at increasing the programs’ effectiveness. But it is also part of an attempt to save $1.9 billion in the next fiscal year by targeting overlapping programs that serve the same purpose.

[i told ya!]

Democrats, however, say what is needed are better job training programs, not what they say are cuts in the job-training budget.

[talk is cheap, Democrats! DO something about it, if you can, and please, NO mandated preschool as per Al Gore!]