I am a returning student after 20 years. I am a working student and a single mother of two and my schedule is pretty tight. And I am nearing the end of my community college stay. I have approximately 5 to 6 classes left and they are pretty much the higher ended classes and are required transfer classes to a UC or Cal State. We have had over 100 class cut at the school with about 25% more just during the summer session. What should take 2 sessions at my school will now most likely take 2 years or more because of the class reduction issue. In addition to that if we have less classes at the school that will mean less professors to teach due to layoffs because of less classes. What can be said as a "little bit more difficult" may be easy for one person to say but not for all. I have been waiting a very long time to get my higher education so "a little" is more than a word, a feeling, but an understatement, especially if I plan to transfer to a Cal State. Which by the way was hit hard and so those who can not get into Cal States and UC's are flowing into the Community Colleges. In fact because of that and the recession the Community Colleges are educating over 100,000 students unfunded. Which puts more pressure for many Community Colleges that are in the red. In fact much of our tuition does not make its way back to the Community Colleges. Techinically about $3 per every $20 unit that is paid makes its way back to the Community College. The remaining technically goes to K - 12. In addition for every $1 that a student puts into the Community College the State of California gets $3 back. Community Colleges also provide about 50% of the workforce in California.