Raw sewage, bursting pipes: Why community colleges are asking voters to foot the repairs

THE SEWER SYSTEMS at two Los Angeles community colleges are about to fail — “catastrophically.” Nearby, in Torrance, a community college shut down multiple buildings, some for weeks at a time, because the heating and cooling system is so old it broke. 

Seismic engineers delivered a dire prediction to a Sacramento community college last year: a central building on campus might collapse.