Amador County – Assistant Superintendent of Amador County Schools in early June told the Office of Education Board of Trustees that American River College is leaving Amador County, where it now has a handful of classes.

“They are not going to annex us because we are not big enough,” Chapin-Pinotti said, during a presentation to the Office of Education. She said the district gives them money and has what it considers significant numbers, but “we are very insignificant in their numbers,” and “it is not cost-effective for them to be here.”

Trustee Lynette Lipp said they are only willing to impart to us certain teachers, and “there is no succession of classes.” Chapin-Pinotti said the “classes are filling with students from the Valley because they can’t get the classes in the Valley.”

Amador Community College Foundation president, Supervisor Chairman John Plasse last week, discussing the idea of a college or training institute at Preston, said “for a community college to partner with us, we have to meet 500 full time students.” He said they could partner with northern Calaveras County, which is “paying $3 million to Delta Community College” with no benefits in return. Plasse said colleges “don’t want to take on anything that resembles a cost.”

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