Obama Job Training Strategy Backs Community Colleges
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Calling community colleges the “unsung heroes” of the U.S. educational system, President Barack Obama called for federal funding to support the two-year, nonprofit institutions in helping put Americans back to work and boost the economy.
Obama spoke at the first White House summit on community colleges yesterday, which brought together more than 100 college presidents, advocates and teachers from across the U.S. to discuss how to best serve about 12 million students. To reach his goal of making the U.S. No. 1 in the world in the percentage of adults with college graduates by 2020, community colleges will have to increase the number of degrees they give out by 5 million over the next 10 years, Obama said.