"President Obama soon will be announcing a plan to substantially boost funding for the nation's community colleges, with an aim of helping more workers get the job-training they need in the coming decade," the Chicago Tribune reports. "Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, outlined the goals of this program in an address [Wednesday] to the Democratic Leadership Council. 'In the next couple of weeks, you will see a major announcement by the president on community colleges and job training and the rewriting of all the legislation related to job training and community ed. in the country - but, most importantly, in the area of community colleges,' Emanuel told the DLC. The administration will be proposing a redirecting of funding - 'going from subsidies in higher education to a direct lending of the federal government,' Emanuel said. 'There are more resources now.'"

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Additional Media Coverage

Top Obama Aide Says More Support for Community Colleges Is Planned The Chronicle of Higher Education

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