Community College Case Study

My presence in this meeting is for the case for Community college. I would like to introduce myself as Matthew Cortez, a student from Los Angeles Pierce Community College and I 've been a student at Pierce College for just a one semester and I learned something. I am here to speak with Los Angeles City Council concerning about the closure of all Los Angeles Community Colleges. I 've learned a community college is not just for people who are just trying to get further in their education but its also very beneficial for the City of Los Angeles. Community college is different from CSU and UC schools by being smaller , so its easier to get around, and its cheaper, so you could save money. The main purpose for community college is to pursue your education further in life but it does much more than that. The other reason is because it benefits the community in making it a better place. Another reason is because it gives people hope that they could continue their …show more content…
What I said today in city hall is why we as a city should decide not to close our community colleges. The reasons are because of the money we will lose and spend money including the employees, who will lose their jobs over this decision, would not be able to support their families. The benefits of the community on making it a better place, so this would mean will have a increase in criminal activity in the area. The people would not have hope on succeeding because they would not be able to go back to school because of their situations. And people would not be able to be prepared for the real world and would not learn learning techniques to improve their companies that could improve our city economy. I recommend the City Council of Los Angeles to not close our community colleges and urge you to listen to what I said here today; Thank