"Community college advocates are encouraging their constituents to put aside their minor disagreements about the structure of the American Graduation Initiative for the moment and lobby collectively for its quick passage, now that it may be considered alongside health-care reform via the contentious budget reconciliation process," Inside Higher Ed reports. "While community college officials have strongly backed the legislation from the beginning, they also have had various ideas for improving it and have spent time -- until now -- arguing for various changes both publicly and in their behind-the-scenes communications with Congressional members and staff. Wednesday, at the opening session of the annual legislative summit sponsored by the Association of Community College Trustees and the American Association of Community Colleges, the major point of discussion was the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA), which has been on the legislative back burner while Congress has been debating health care reform. The most significant part of the bill for many in the two-year sector is the American Graduation Initiative (AGI), $12 billion in federal grant funding for which community colleges can compete."