Bitterroot Valley Community College plan goes before Legislature

“If you build it they will come.”

The community college debate brought its show to the Capitol on Wednesday in a late-in-the-game chance for Ravalli County residents to voice support for a new two-year institution in the Bitterroot.

With the national recession practically incarnate and sitting in residence here, the fate of the Bitterroot Valley Community College http://bvcc-edu.org/ has been put in SJ 12, a resolution that would grant legal approval of the creation of the Bitterroot Valley Community College (BVCC) without authorizing any funding for it until 2011 at the earliest.

In a hearing long on sports metaphor, advocates lined up more than 20 strong to take a swing at convincing the legislators of the Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee that it was time to approve the college.

by SEPP JANNOTTA – Ravalli Republic

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