BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18830284 SEQUENCE:18981825 CREATED:20200201T080200Z DESCRIPTION:2/4 Rally Press Conference-Mayor Breed Sign The Ordinance For $2.7 Million \n& Supervisors Mandelman, Yee, Peskin & Stefani Change Your Vote To Back CCSF Students, Faculty and Staff!\n\nPress Conference/Rally On Tuesday 2/4 1:00 PM\nSF City Hall Polk St. Entrance Near McAllister \n\nThe San Francisco Community College is facing a massive attack by Chancellor Mark Rocha enabled by the CCSF Board of Trustees.\nThe most recent cut of 300 classes virtually eliminated the Older Adults Program which helps seniors survive and grow. In a union-busting move, Mayor London Breed and her supporters on the Board of Supervisors, including Mandelman, have announced plans to outsource the classes to non-profits instead of CCSF. \n \n\nThe vote by 7 SF Supervisors to provide emergency funding to restore these classes is a lifesaver. It is supported by the San Francisco Labor Council. We call on SF Mayor London Breed to sign this funding ordinance. \n \nWE need this money NOW to stop the liquidation of our college\nwhich is resulting in shutting down vocational education classes, ethnic studies classes and classes students need for graduation. The cuts are destroying the lives of our students and part-time faculty who are losing their jobs and healthcare. This is an Emergency!\n\nWe also want an independent forensic audit to verify our tax money for the college is being properly spent.going. We also favor the repeal of the State legislation written and pushed by the Lumina Foundation and ALEC that reduces funding for the education of working-class and students of color, which is based on a so-called student-centered funding formula.\n\nThe City and County of San Francisco have a budget of $12 billion. The $2.7 million emergency funding is a small amount to restore these critically needed classes.\n\nWhile cutting classes, Chancellor Rocha has also been increasing the salaries of executives. We are supporting his immediate removal for cause that includes his discouragement of this emergency funding.\n \n\nIn order to be successful, we need support on Tuesday at 1 PM in front of City Hall.\n\nJoin the Rally and Press Conference\n\nMay Breed Support the Restoration of 300 Classes & Sign The Ordinance\n\nSupervisors Vote To Back The City College Students, Faculty and Staff: This Is Our Community College!\n\nSponsored by Higher Education Action Team with support of students, faculty, and staff.\n\nhttps://ccsfheat.wordpress.com\nccsfheat(at)gmail.com\n\nCCSF emergency funding faces opposition\nhttps://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-funding-faces-opposition-from-mayor-supervisors/\nDAVID HOROWITZ\nJan. 31, 2020 5:50 p.m\n.NEWSTHE CITY\n \n \nThe Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 Tuesday to provide City College of San Francisco emergency funding to restore hundreds of hastily canceled classes.\n\nThe budget supplemental, which would allocate $2.7 million to the college for reinstating classes, goes before the Board for a second and final vote Feb. 4.\n\nHowever supervisors Norman Yee, Rafael Mandelman, Catherine Stefani and Aaron Peskin voted in opposition. At the meeting those in dissent deemed it financially irresponsible expressed concern about the college’s oversight and transparency.\n\nMoreover, Mayor London Breed is widely expected to veto it. The funding would require an eighth supervisor’s support to become veto-proof.\n\n“The mayor said she is going to veto it and not spend it,” said CCSF Trustee Alex Randolph at a meeting Friday of the Joint City, School District, and City College Select Committee, held to discuss how the cancellations impacted low-income and communities of color as well as high school students.\n\nThe mayor’s press office did not return requests for comment.\n\nCCSF canceled 345 spring classes on Nov. 20, 2019 to ameliorate the college’s budget deficit amid concerns that more spending could spark a second accreditation crisis for the college. The cuts, which were made abruptly and without consulting academic chairs, prompted an outcry.\n\nSome students saw their final classes for graduation eliminated. Dozens lost the only affordable arts education in the Bay Area. Teachers saw their classes and health benefits disappear overnight. And more than 2,000 older adults lost classes known to provide community and stimulation and prevent isolation and deterioration.\n\n“I’ve been taking classes at Evans Center for two years now,” said Brenna Stroud, a former student of the auto body program, which lost five out of six certificates. “My education abruptly stopped because the only two courses I need to graduate have been cut.”\n\nCollege administrators have previously said the cancellations intended to prioritize the graduation of students of color. But school advocates and city officials took issue with that claim Friday.\n\n“You cannot say that you’re focused on equity and cut hundreds of classes, without having conversations with faculty, without having conversations with students, without having conversations with other leadership in San Francisco,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said at a press conference before the hearing.\n\nCCSF Acting Vice Chancellor of Facilities Torrance Bynum presented the administration’s case to the Joint Education committee, but provided only three bullet points of data. The lack of preparedness for the discussion bewildered the committee.\n\n“Numbers is something I would like to see. I would like to see numbers by group; I would like to see numbers over time; I would like to see numbers by location,” School Board member Alison Collins said. “I’m hearing from Supervisor Walton the whole point of this was to understand how decisions were made.”\n\nIf the budget supplemental does pass, it would go before the college’s Board of Trustees at its Feb. 27 meeting. Board President Shanell Williams has stated her support for potential funding and Board member Ivy Lee also said she would support the supplemental if it came to a board vote, but stressed the need for more long-term funding to address the college’s budget woes. It is unclear where other trustees stand.\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Mark Rocha has spoken in opposition to city funding in a letter to the Board of Supervisors and other city partners, saying the cuts were part of a long term plan to adjust classes to changes in state funding models.\n\nAdministrators declined to comment on what the school’s plan is if the funding is approved. A query to the administration about which classes could return or what the process would be to get teachers back returned one reply.\n\n“The college continues to be in favor of long-term sustainable funding measures, such as the Community Higher Education Fund (CHEF), rather than one-time funding measures that do not help the college overcome its structural budget issues,” college spokesperson Rachel Howard said.\n\nThe Board of Trustees is holding a study session at CCSF’s Chinatown Center in Room 201 on Saturday at 9 a.m.\n\n1/31/20 SF BOS Joint Education Meeting On SF City College Crisis\n Joint Meeting: https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=203&clip_id=35053\n\nStop The Cuts! Hundreds of CCSF Students & Faculty Protest 300 Class Cuts AT BOT Meet-SF & CA Demos Lead The Attack On Public Education\nhttps://youtu.be/7ohpgRD_cOg\nHundreds of faculty and students rallied, protested and spoke out at a SF City College Board of Trustees meeting on December 12, 2019. Chancellor Mark Rocha had announced the 300 class cuts and then sent a letter to SF Mayor London Breed and the Board Of Supervisors arguing against a $2.7 million funding appropriation to stop the cuts. Rocha said the cuts were “part of a long-planned restructuring of the academic program to prioritize the graduation of students of color” in preparation for the state’s new method of funding community colleges. Rocha was backed up by the Board of Trustees who are part of the City's Democratic party power structure and have supported the massive corporatization, privatization, and downsizing of the community college. Additionally, San Francisco and California politicians in the legislature have passed the "Student-Centered Funding Formula” that punishes working-class students that cannot graduate in two years. This legislation has been pushed by the reactionary rightwing Lumina Foundation and ALEC nationally and the California Democratic Party has put this into legislation which will destroy all community colleges in California.\nVirtually the entire Older Adults Program as well would also be destroyed by the cuts putting many seniors who need these programs in health danger.\nCalifornia Democrats with a $21 billion surplus and San Francisco with many billionaires and a $12 billion dollar budget are at the same time intent on San Francisco Community College.\nRocha whose wife is a developer is also moving to sell-off campuses of the college for speculators and developers and are pushing an $800 million bond measure that would be a slush fund for the corrupt administrators and billionaires. Former UESF president Dennis Kelly has also joined the bond committee to push this corrupt scheme.\nAdditional media:\nTeachers, Students & Community Rally To STOP Massive Cuts At SF City College By Chancellor Rocha\nhttps://youtu.be/JNc5jh8_Eq8\nStudents, Faculty & Community Demand STOP The CUTS At CCSF With Funeral\nhttps://youtu.be/2caDc_WN60g\nShooting Yourself In The Foot & Increasing Executive Salaries At CCSF By Chancellor Rocha\nhttps://youtu.be/3esO55xUlp8\nCity College of San Francisco: 99% vs. corporate education reform\nhttps://www.peoplesworld.org/article/city-college-of-san-francisco-99-vs-corporate-education-reform/\nSpeak-out On Privatization of Balboa Reservoir For Developers Which Threatens SF City College\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbeRvY-HRhY\nBUSTING up CCSF! CCSF Chancellor, Bd President & Bd Majority Wrecking City College\nhttps://youtu.be/pizpoBQcQuQ\nThe Downsizing & Privatization Of CCSF "Vision 2025" & The Secret Illegal CCSF Board Meetings\nhttps://youtu.be/JhDq_BakeQo\nPrivatization and Destruction of CCSF\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnDjK5RAkes&t=2s\nPublic Education, Privatization, Corruption And The Destruction Of Our Schools\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_eu5u70tTE&t=16s\nBuild The PAEC NOW! Stop The Privatization & Developers Rip-off Scam\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkGMe_w6JaU\nConflicts of Interest, CCSF & The Attack On Public Education Privatization With Kathy Carroll\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4mRloWBEA&t=3s\nPublic Education, Privatization, Corruption And The \nDestruction Of Our Schools\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_eu5u70tTE\n"Are You Out Of Your Minds"? AFT 2121 Faculty Challenge CCSF Board On Mark Rocha Appointment\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEZpOS8p4gQ \\nFor more information\nHEAT\nhttps://ccsfheat.wordpress.com\n ccsfheat@gmail.com\nProduction of Labor Video Project\nwww.laborvideo.org\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/01/18830284.php SUMMARY:Mayor Breed Sign The Ordinance For $2.7 Million & Supervisors Support It LOCATION:SF City Hall Polk St. Entrance Near McAllister URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/01/18830284.php DTSTART:20200204T203000Z DTEND:20200204T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR