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Chancellor asks Legislature to boost community college enrollment funding, expand data and prior‑learning investments
Summary
California Community Colleges Chancellor urged the Senate subcommittee to increase enrollment growth funding to 3%, expand the common cloud data platform and scale credit‑for‑prior‑learning programs, citing sustained post‑pandemic enrollment recovery and districts carrying unfunded FTES.
Chancellor Christian told the Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Education that California's community colleges have rebounded from pandemic lows and are now projecting continued year‑over‑year enrollment growth, asking the Legislature to fund a 3% enrollment growth rate rather than the Governor's proposed 1.5% step. She said the system now enrolls more than 2.2 million students and urged policymakers to remove a 10% growth cap and consider using a best‑performing year in the three‑year average to better resource districts that are recovering rapidly.
Christian described a package of priorities the chancellor's office…
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