I decided to look into the community college claim. Turns out you're right. Sort of. You left out critical information to make it sound bad at face value.
For starters, remedial courses don't transfer to 4 year universities. Which - coupled with the dead end nature of them - seemed to be a serious impediment for students. Here are some other interesting tidbits:
>AB 1705 builds off a 2017 law, Assembly Bill 705, that said colleges can’t place students in remedial classes unless they are deemed highly unlikely to succeed in transfer-level coursework. That bill was brought forward amid research showing that students who took remedial math and English classes often got stuck in those classes and were less likely to finish their degrees.
>The latest bill goes further by limiting colleges to enrolling only certain populations of students in remedial classes, such as English learners and students in some career and technical education programs. It also leaves room for colleges to enroll other students in remedial classes if the colleges can prove, based on a student’s high school grades, that the student is more likely to earn a degree or certificate by starting in the pre-transfer classes.
Sounds like we should be applauding an attempted overhaul of community colleges in california to me.
https://edsource.org/updates/newsom-signs-bill-to-ban-most-r....
For starters, remedial courses don't transfer to 4 year universities. Which - coupled with the dead end nature of them - seemed to be a serious impediment for students. Here are some other interesting tidbits:
>AB 1705 builds off a 2017 law, Assembly Bill 705, that said colleges can’t place students in remedial classes unless they are deemed highly unlikely to succeed in transfer-level coursework. That bill was brought forward amid research showing that students who took remedial math and English classes often got stuck in those classes and were less likely to finish their degrees.
>The latest bill goes further by limiting colleges to enrolling only certain populations of students in remedial classes, such as English learners and students in some career and technical education programs. It also leaves room for colleges to enroll other students in remedial classes if the colleges can prove, based on a student’s high school grades, that the student is more likely to earn a degree or certificate by starting in the pre-transfer classes.
Sounds like we should be applauding an attempted overhaul of community colleges in california to me.