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One of the reasons community college enrollment is surging is because the community colleges serve all areas of preparation.  They provide lower cost freshman and sophmore college classes for those who want to continue on to a four-year or graduate degree, they provide professional/technical training for those "middle skill jobs" that require more than a high school diploma but less than a bachelor degree, and they provide remedial adult education for those folks who didn't earn a high school diploma but now understand how important education is to their survivablility.

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