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DESCRIPTION:City Hall Must Take Action to Save City College\nMass Rally Demanding City 
 Govt. Help SF City College.\nThursday, March 14, 4-6 PM\nSF City Hall 
 Steps\nPolk Street Side\n\nSan Francisco City Government needs to help City 
 College of San Francisco continue as a vibrant COMMUNITY College.  City 
 College is under threat from a private Accrediting Commission and the 
 state-wide California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.  Outside 
 manipulation of City College’s affairs has gotten to the point of 
 diverting $14 million in City Proposition A revenue that SF voters approved 
 by a 73% margin to save City College classes, programs, teachers, and 
 staff.  It’s time for San Francisco City Government to step in!\n\nCity 
 College of San Francisco (CCSF) is a great Community College. The NY Times 
 says it’s the 11th top Community College in the nation.  It helps 
 students complete their GEDs, prepares students to transfer to 4-year 
 colleges, and graduates students in the fields of food preparation, 
 nursing, radiology, fire fighting, and many other fields.  Thousands of 
 immigrants learn English, older adults take special courses, unemployed 
 workers learn new skills – the list goes on.\n\nBut City College is under 
 severe threat, not of closing, but of losing its accreditation unless it 
 bows to the private Accrediting Commission’s demands to narrow its 
 mission down to full-time students planning to transfer to four-year 
 colleges or in vocational certificate programs.  No low-income students 
 working while studying, no Lifelong Learning programs for older adults, no 
 Diversity programs specializing in communities of color, no programs for 
 people with disabilities - - in short, no Community in Community Colleges.  
 The state-wide California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office wants to 
 impose this on ALL California Community Colleges, but is starting its 
 attack on San Francisco’s Community College because it’s the biggest 
 and most successful as an inclusive Community College.\n\nSan Francisco 
 City Government needs to:\n\n1)  Spend Prop A funds as 73% of voters 
 intended,\n\n2)  Intervene to make sure Prop A is followed, since the CCSF 
 Trustees won’t do  it.\n\n3)  Issue a bridge loan until Prop A and Prop 
 30 funds arrive, or better yet  to dip into City reserves and help City 
 College, which is a City public school.\n\n4)  Reverse the cuts to CCSF 
 programs and classes,  and in general Take a Stand for City College.\n\n5)  
 Resist the privatization of City College, which would be the result if City 
 College dropped programs whose students would be forced into private, 
 for-profit schools for vocational or other training.\n\nDownload and 
 circulate our petition to Save City College.\nIt’s at  
 http://tinyurl.com/b6e2hx9 \n\nSend filled petitions to:\nAssociated 
 Students of SF City College\nShannell Williams, Student Body 
 President \nOcean Campus\n50 Phelan Avenue\nStudent Union 209 & 213\nSan 
 Francisco, CA. 94112\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/20/18732505.php
SUMMARY:City Hall Must Take Action to Save City College!
LOCATION:SFCity Hall Steps\nPolk Street Side\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/20/18732505.php
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