One in Three California Community College Applicants Is Fake

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California’s community college system has a responsibility to educate students, safeguard taxpayer funds, and provide affordable pathways to upward mobility. 

Instead, it has become a case study in how public institutions collapse when verification is optional, enforcement is politicized, and fraud is treated as collateral damage.

Roughly one in three applicants to California’s community colleges—about 1.2 million individuals—is believed to be fraudulent.