Facing what will be a decade of budget cuts, Kentucky’s community college system has cut more than 500 positions.

Source: KCTCS cuts 500 faculty, staff positions

It appears that our Commonwealth (and Goobernator Beavis by proxy) has decided that some people should not get a post-secondary degree. They can find other careers along with all those who are “re-tooling” in order to better their own lives. These are 500 positions either unfilled from retirement or unfilled existing lines (or outright fired). If you add this to all the other public higher education in Kentucky, I suppose that’s over a thousand holes in the educational fabric. Wait for it, wait for it…hear that? That ripping sound…