April 18, 2003

Community Colleges Push for Changes as Congress Renews Job-Training Law

By JAMILAH EVELYN

The reauthorization of the $2.5-billion Workforce Investment Act, which created a federal program that seeks to provide job and training opportunities for dislocated and adult workers, has emerged from a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives a little closer to what some community-college lobbyists would like to see. Still, the proposal falls short of just what they want.

Community-college officials have long complained that the program, which is administered by the Department

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