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DESCRIPTION:Coalition to Save City College Meeting\nTuesday, July 24, 6:00 p.m.\nSEIU 
 Local 1021, 350 Rhode Island Street\nBetw. 16th & 17th Sts, map:  
 http://tinyurl.com/c8g7tyo  \n# 22, 10, 19 buses\n\nSF Bay Guardian, July 
 10, 2012, by Chris Jackson\n\nThe real problem is the state's defunding of 
 public education.\n\nAlthough a recent accreditation report levels a long 
 list of criticisms of City College, some of them legitimate issues that 
 need to be addressed, the real problem is the state's defunding of public 
 education and its disinvestment in our community-college system.\n\nThere's 
 no question that everyone is going to work to keep City College open and 
 serving our communities.\n\nCity College of San Francisco serves more than 
 90,000 students each year, trains (and retrains) our workforce, teaches 
 English to our immigrant populations, fosters lifelong learning, and 
 provides affordable, accessible pathways into all of higher education's 
 opportunities. But five years of drastic cuts in state funding has resulted 
 in shrinking programs and overflowing classes; skyrocketing costs to 
 students and families; employee furloughs, pay cuts, and givebacks; 
 shutting the doors on far too many students who are unable to get the 
 classes they need; and an increasing sense that community college education 
 and its mission are wholly threatened for our city's diverse 
 students.\n\nOverall, if you read the Accrediting Commission for Community 
 and Junior College's report, the commission is asking City College to 
 shrink its mission of providing a high quality, affordable education to all 
 who come to its doors. The ACCJC wants City College to step away from its 
 San Francisco value of "chopping from the top" — cutting administration 
 instead of teachers.\n\nLet's be clear, the buck stops with the elected 
 Board of Trustees. We as a board are going to work together with the entire 
 City College family to save the college and its accreditation and look at 
 and resolve all of the issues brought up in the accreditation 
 report.\n\nWith that said, it's important to understand that California's 
 institutions of higher education have taken huge cuts during our historic 
 recession and subsequent unemployment — a time when more and more people 
 have come to use our educational resources to help in their quest to find 
 jobs.\n\nOver the past four years, the state has cut more than $1 billion 
 from the community college system. That includes a $17 million cut to City 
 College last year — and this year, we've worked to close an additional 
 $14 million budget deficit. Last year, more than 10,000 students were 
 unable to attend City College due to lack classes.\n\nWhile students are 
 scrambling for classroom seats, the commission is arguing that City College 
 has too few administrators. But we're proud of the fact that every 
 available dollar continues to go to saving City College classes and student 
 access.\n\nCity College has spent the last year planning to place a parcel 
 tax on this November's ballot — to raise funds specifically to address 
 many of the problems cited in the report. If the City College parcel tax 
 and Governor Brown's tax both pass, City College will have the money to 
 restore many of the classes, services and liabilities that we've been 
 unable to address.\n\nAs the largest community college in California, our 
 mission and values are to serve all that come to the doors of City College, 
 and let this be clear to our communities: We will never shrink away from 
 that mission.\n\nChris Jackson is a member of the San Francisco Community 
 College Board of Trustees.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/22/18718052.php
SUMMARY:Coalition to Save City College Meeting
LOCATION:SEIU Local 1021, 350 Rhode Island Street\nBetw. 16th & 17th Sts, map:  
 http://tinyurl.com/c8g7tyo  \n# 22, 10, 19 buses
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/22/18718052.php
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