As Seattle Central faces budget cuts, supporters rally around favorite programs - jseattle, Capitol Hill Seattle

After years of trimming its budget back but doing everything possible to not trim away classes, things are dire enough in the latest state budget that even Seattle Central Community College's strongest programs are clouds of worry this week. You might have seen an e-mail from your favorite SCCC-connected person -- there are about 10,000 students enrolled at the school, by the way -- asking for your support for programs that could be on the chopping block. CHS has received several from people worried about the Capitol Hill school's Parent Education Center, for example. There are reasons to be worried -- the school is still searching for $2 million in cuts, we're told -- but the childcare center is probably not one of them.