LBCC has initiated the two tiered system of fee payment

According to the LA Times, LBCC has initiated the two tiered system for Winter and Summer.  It is important to note that LBCC did not have a Winter session before this year.  The article states:  
Long Beach City College is the first in the state to offer a tiered pricing plan, approved by the state Legislature last fall. Under the law, six community colleges were allowed to implement a two-tiered pricing system for high-demand classes during summer and winter terms until 2018. The two-year colleges typically charge $46 per unit, among the lowest in the country.
In some cases, some might consider a fee waver to be factor,which it is.  But as you can tell by the following, there is a cost.  

Every semester since 2009, Sequoyah Hilt has tried to sign up for a phlebotomy course at Long Beach City College. She never got a seat.

Then Hilt heard that the school had openings for her long-awaited class. There was just one catch: The monthlong winter extension course could cost up to $225 per unit, nearly five times the normal price.
Hilt went for it. The 26-year-old needed the class to learn to take blood samples for a new career as a medical technician.
She ended up paying $135 — instead of the full price of $337.50 — because of a fee waiver granted by the school. Hilt said she was uncomfortable shelling out almost double what the course normally costs, but she said she just "couldn't keep waiting it out."
Of note, this is the same college that effectively cut 11 career/technical programs last year, as noted in the Signal Tribune.  

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