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According to officials at Columbia Basin College in Pasco and Yakima Valley College, students are not taking what are called English Language Acquisition courses.
Since last March, CBC has seen those numbers drop by at least 60%. The courses are designed to help various ethnic groups learn or sharpen their English skills to help them in school, jobs and society.
They re among the most affordable classes offered, only $25 per quarter. These trends are alarming many CBC and YVC officials and educators.
YVC’s Ericka Tollefson, ELA instructor, said in their information release:
“Whether it’s opening up job opportunities, preparing for college level work, or for personal needs, improving your English can create new possibilities and help students achieve their goals.
You can see those towns in a list below or search for towns in your area in a database at the bottom of the page.
Readers asked the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey to look at the average property taxes across the state compared to each town s average municipal home value and the average income. We obliged, using data from the New Jersey Department of Community and the U.S. Census Bureau to compare property taxes with incomes.
There are some caveats:
We used the average, or mean, household income from the American Communities Survey 2019 5-year estimate, which is the most recent data available for all towns since 2020 Census data has not been released yet. A town s mean income tends to be higher than the median income, but is a better comparison to the state data, which is also the mean property tax.