June 3, 2005

Bush Budget Stresses Community Colleges

By SILLA BRUSH

Sally L. Stroup, the U.S. Education Department's top higher-education official, says that programs that help nontraditional students and community colleges are priorities in President Bush's proposed budget for next year.

Two new programs in the budget would provide more than $400-million for short-term job-training initiatives and for community colleges, Ms. Stroup said in May at the national conference of the Workforce Alliance, a Washington-based advocacy organization for

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