On Tuesday, President Obama announced a plan to invest twelve billion dollars in community colleges over the next ten years.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Kay Ryan said she wanted to celebrate the fact that all over America, community colleges save lives and minds.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

A few billion will also go to schools that traditionally serve minorities and to help two-year community colleges.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Carol Stax-Brown is an administrator of the program for a group called Community Colleges for International Development.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

State Department officials say more than five hundred students will attend thirty-seven community colleges this fall.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Two-year colleges, also known as community colleges, have not always gotten a lot of respect.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

David Baime is a senior vice president of the American Association of Community Colleges.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

These schools, known as community colleges, have had the greatest enrollment increase.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Miz Ryan has been teaching English in community colleges for thirty years.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Two-year colleges in the United States are also known as community colleges.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Here is part of the poem. (READER) The current Poet Laureate,Kay Ryan, opened this year's National Poetry Month April first with a videoconference call to four American community colleges.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

The association also points to shrinking budgets for community colleges.

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She made community colleges the centerpiece of her poetry project.

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Community colleges are less costly than other schools.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

The president is promoting his initiative to reform and strengthen community colleges, which offer training in various trades and professions.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

(Music) There's not exactly a rush of good news across economically stressed America unless you work at one of our 1,200 community colleges.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

On education,Clinton says Washington is supporting partnerships between U.S.community colleges and institutions in Muslim communities.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

It really shows that community colleges in this country are part of the American Dream."

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The New York Times reports that the clamor to get into community colleges has grown so strong that many have had to plow new, auxiliary parking lots;

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

Community colleges' honors programs, usually half-empty,have, in the Post's words,exploded.

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Community colleges' honors programs, usually half-empty, have,in the Post's words,exploded.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

The United States government and the colleges pay the costs in a program called the Community College Initiative.

VOA: special.2009.06.18