• Right idea, wrong approach      Plan to trim students from
community college system needs more finesse   • Gov. Jerry
Brown's attempt to move career students out of the community
college system slammed into a skeptical state Legislature last
week.     • email print     Brown might have the right idea but
his approach leaves a lot to be desired. Lawmakers, not to
mention opponents of the whole idea, desire a lot more tweaking
to any proposed change.     Brown wanted to cap at 90 units the
number of life-time credits someone could earn at the state's
112 community colleges. After that, a student could take more
classes but the price would quadruple from the in-state per unit
rate of $46. The idea was to price a lot of hangers-on out of
the system making room for students serious about going on to
four year schools or seeking some sort of job training.     In
recent years as the state's money woes deepened community
colleges have seen their funding cut again and again. That has
meant fewer classes available an