After the Special Election -- What Now?
Voters rejected five out of six measures on yesterday's ballot. The defeat wasn't much of a surprise given recent polls, but the propositions were meant to address, at least in part, the state's multi-billion dollar budget deficit.
Graduation Rates and Community Colleges
President Obama has challenged the nation to reverse the steady decline of college graduation rates. One strategy to boost those rates targets community colleges, which attract about half of all recent high school graduates. In our second report on college graduation, Elaine Korry examines the push to get more of these students into four-year schools.