Hundreds of people marched to San Francisco City Hall Thursday afternoon demanding support for City College. Protesters asked the city to commit to funding the school and to reverse cuts to classes, programs and staff.

The school faces a Friday deadline to demonstrate to the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges that it has addressed 14 serious management and fiscal problems the commission identified earlier this year. If the commission decertifies the school, City College would lose federal funding and could be effectively shut down this summer.
Protesters stopped at Mission High School where students joined the protest, and the march continued into City Hall. Police, who had been escorting the crowd on bicycles, formed a line to keep the crowd from going further.
The crowd chanted, “Come out, Mr. Lee.”
Mayor Ed Lee did not appear. Marchers stayed inside for about 20 minutes before moving outside to hear speeches.