January 10, 2003

Calif. 2-Year Colleges Face Enrollment Flap

By PETER SCHMIDT

Community colleges across California are putting high-school coaches on the payroll and counting high-school team practices and workouts as college-level courses delivered to college students, thereby inflating their enrollments, according to an investigative series published last month by The Orange County Register.

State officials have threatened to withhold some payments to community colleges in response to the controversy, although some officials said it was unclear whether state

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