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SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS
The Billion-Dollar Question: Which Students Benefit?
The Chronicle looks at the financial-aid packages of four students, including one at Everett Community College, to see how the economic-stimulus package might affect them.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 6, 2009
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=vsnq4fzybN2kNTBjvf2V5jjFspXFvjkP
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Demand for retraining up in Washington state, but financial aid dwindles
Puget Sound Business Journal, Feb. 27, 2009 (Highline, Bellevue, Green River, SBCTC)
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/03/02/focus3.html
Oregon moves to ride out recession by expanding student aid, while Washington’s schools prepare for cutbacks
Puget Sound Business Journal, Feb. 27, 2009
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/03/02/focus1.html?b=1235970000%5E1785720
Want to learn more about working in the trades as a woman?
NW Source Career Blog, Feb, 26, 2009
http://blog.marketplace.nwsource.com/ninetothrive/2009/02/want_to_learn_more_about_worki.html
TRENDS| HORIZONS | EDUCATION
California's Budget Problems Leave Community Colleges Holding IOU's
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 6, 2009
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=fswptrvfrs8WtwbFqggZqD34nSjcPXVk
This article will be available to non-subscribers of The Chronicle for up to five days after it is e-mailed.
Vo-Techs Are a New Elite, Local Districts Complain
New York Times, March 3, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/education/03vocational.html?_r=1&ref=education
How a good liberal arts education helps the economy
… But despite a large community college system with industry partnerships, the state struggles to meet the demand for voc-tech training because of heavy demands for both remedial education and academic preparation of students seeking a four-year college education.
Puget Sound Business Journal, Feb. 27, 2009
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/03/02/focus6.html
POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL
Washington state lawmakers weigh actions to counter rising college costs
Puget Sound Business Journal, Feb. 27, 2009
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/03/02/focus2.html
National race for green jobs is on; let's win it
By Rep. Hans Dunshee
The Herald, March 1, 2009
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