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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11 a.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco's Board of Trustees finalized 38 faculty layoffs to address a looming budget deficit during a special meeting Friday night. Another 12 faculty are retiring and won't be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that may not be the full count of teachers dropped by the school: At least 150 part-timers may not be hired back to the college as part of a state mechanism that mandates part-timers not take the place of laid-off full-time faculty, the teachers' union says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while those aren't technically layoffs, those teachers will be out of a job all the same. Many have worked at the college for years — for some, decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913429\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tent sits next to demonstrators listening to speakers at a rally outside a large administrative building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty and students gather outside Conlan Hall at CCSF to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Faculty have been camping there to protest layoffs since Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All week, faculty and student supporters tried to hold back the tidal wave of layoffs: On Sunday, City College of San Francisco faculty marched for May Day; on Tuesday they camped in tents in front of their administration's offices; and on Thursday, 10 protesters were arrested after blocking a street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday night, the tsunami of cuts washed over them, all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 360 faculty tuned in to the virtual City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees meeting Friday afternoon, including Denise Selleck, who has taught English as a second language classes at the college since 1991. Those classes primarily serve San Francisco's many immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your decision today not only affects the 38 tenured instructors who will lose their jobs, it also affects the dozens of part-timers who you will make unemployed,\" Selleck said, during public comment. \"And it will affect the thousands of students who will not be able to get the classes that they want and need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English teacher Monica Bosson put the cuts in simpler terms to the Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's absolutely gut-wrenching,\" Bosson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five trustees voted to approve the cuts, with trustee Alan Wong casting a nay vote. A student trustee also cast a nay vote, though student trustee votes are only advisory. Board trustee Shanell Williams disagreed with criticism from the hundreds of faculty attending the virtual meeting that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the decimation of our college. There are mechanisms for rehiring and there are pathways for growth,” Williams said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Denise Selleck, ESL teacher\"]'Your decision today not only affects the 38 tenured instructors who will lose their jobs, it also affects the dozens of part-timers who you will make unemployed ... And it will affect the thousands of students who will not be able to get the classes that they want and need.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday's meeting, Chancellor David Martin called the layoffs a \"very difficult situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, \"this is the best path to move forward in allowing us to spend our resources in a way that best meets the students' needs into the future,\" he said. \"We do need to readjust our financial structure, not only by increasing our reserves in excess of 5%, but we also have funding needs such as scheduled maintenance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin told those in attendance that the college also has to balance paying basic needs like fixing boilers or renewing computers, and that layoffs were the only way to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Bravewoman, president-elect of AFT 2121, the City College of San Francisco teachers' union, told KQED that the trustees' vote shook the faith of college faculty, who had been working with the city of San Francisco to raise new revenues to stave off cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With four of the trustee seats open for election this November, AFT 2121 says they're now seeking to replace the trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My message all week long has been loud and clear: Your 'yes' vote on these layoffs is our 'no' vote in November,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoffs follow various faculty rallies over the last week, including the arrest of 10 faculty members at City College of San Francisco Thursday evening by San Francisco police during a protest against the layoffs at CCSF's Ocean campus, according to AFT Local 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesperson said officers arrested and cited 11 protesters for failing to obey a peace officer and for being pedestrians outside of a crosswalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"demonstrator wearing a mask stands and is handcuffed by police holding zip ties as other demonstrators remain seated in foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD officers arrest a demonstrator who had been sitting on Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to City College of San Francisco's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also isn't the first time City College of San Francisco has warned layoffs were on the way. Last year, the college voted to suspend layoffs of some 160 faculty, but the Board of Trustees warned that new funding would need to be identified to stem future cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a one-year deal. And City College will continue to have a structural budget deficit and funding gap,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872984/ccsf-approves-plan-to-avoid-layoffs-sf-mulls-permanent-fund-for-threatened-classes\">City College Board Trustee Alan Wong told KQED in May last year\u003c/a>. \"Immediately after approving this tentative agreement, we must turn our attention to long-term funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College's woes began during its 2013 accreditation crisis — which infamously threatened its closure — and sent its\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/104635/city-college-of-san-francisco-enrollment-plunges-after-accreditation-loss\"> enrollment into a spiral\u003c/a> from which it never fully recovered, teachers say. [aside postID=\"news_11908747\" label=\"Related Post\"]Fewer students means fewer dollars to pay for teachers, and the college is now facing \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/city-college-faculty-stage-sleep-in-ahead-of-layoff-vote/\">a $5.8 million deficit in its 2025-2026 fiscal year\u003c/a>, according to The SF Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the start of new programs like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/paying-college/free-city\">Free City College\u003c/a>, which offers free tuition to San Francisco residents, other factors soon compounded the existing drop in student population, including a statewide community college enrollment plunge during the pandemic. A CalMatters analysis found that, at 42 out of 116 California community colleges, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/03/community-college-enrollment/\">more students left in the fall of 2021 than in the fall of 2020\u003c/a>. That comprised a statewide loss of more than 300,000 students, which California tried to correct by spending an extra $120 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of unions has tried to pitch tax proposals to stem the gap, including Service Employees International Union 1021, which also represents City College of San Francisco workers and\u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/article/coalition-sf-city-college-unions-urge-mayor-breed-support-revenue-measure-restore-improve?link_id=2&can_id=8a6d4c2c56a332e581114be9f7773d13&source=email-important-updates-on-the-fight-to-defend-ccsf-3&email_referrer=email_1526655&email_subject=join-the-ccsf-community-sunday-at-may-day-rally-campaign-updates\"> met with Mayor London Breed in February to propose new tax mechanisms to raise dollars for CCSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bravewoman said those efforts are ongoing. Right now, it looks like the funding mechanism may be a parcel tax that's shaped to affect new home buyers, as opposed to existing homeowners, that may raise as much as $45 million a year. Polling shows strong support for the measure, she said. The unions will soon begin the signature-gathering effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're confident we'll be successful at the polls,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3qTKYyaCBdZQxFcITEZ8ICcB2HesJAf/edit\">recent cuts are striking departments of all sorts\u003c/a>, affecting everything from workforce training courses like aircraft maintenance and auto mechanics, to classes needed to transfer to four-year schools, like chemistry and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pink slips — layoff notices — already have been mailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold large yellow banner sign reading 'board of trustees meet students needs'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCSF teachers and students block Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to CCSF's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the May Day rally and march in San Francisco on Sunday, City College faculty who'd been served with pink slips spoke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golnar Afshar, a full-time biotechnology teacher, told KQED she got her pink slip in February. Afshar is one of only three faculty in the biotechnology program. Now those students will have fewer classes available to complete their learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Afshar's students are older and changing their careers. They have bachelor's degrees but need to fulfill hands-on training experience to get laboratory jobs — a highly sought-after career path in the Bay Area, which Afshar called \"the Mecca of biotechnology in the world.\" Now those students may have a tougher path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no idea what's going to happen,\" she said. \"If the classes are canceled, the students will not be able to finish up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Afshar, who is 55 and was looking toward retirement in the next decade, \"I'm just going to have to start looking for a job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman wearing black union shirt speaks into megaphone while supporters on either side of her raise fists in support\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathe Burick, a former dance instructor at CCSF, speaks outside Conlan Hall to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Burick was one of 10 faculty members arrested by SFPD at the protest. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two women and a young girl stand in front of a CCSF sign holding a drum and their own protest sign reading 'from CCSF to OUSD, stop school cuts and closures'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Arlene Bugayong, Ella Rose, 6, and Sarah June Harris protest layoffs at CCSF, on May 5, 2022. Bugayong is a counselor at the school and received a pink slip, or layoff notice, earlier this week. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Annelise Finney, Haley Gray and David Marks contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11 a.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco's Board of Trustees finalized 38 faculty layoffs to address a looming budget deficit during a special meeting Friday night. Another 12 faculty are retiring and won't be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that may not be the full count of teachers dropped by the school: At least 150 part-timers may not be hired back to the college as part of a state mechanism that mandates part-timers not take the place of laid-off full-time faculty, the teachers' union says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while those aren't technically layoffs, those teachers will be out of a job all the same. Many have worked at the college for years — for some, decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913429\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tent sits next to demonstrators listening to speakers at a rally outside a large administrative building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty and students gather outside Conlan Hall at CCSF to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Faculty have been camping there to protest layoffs since Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All week, faculty and student supporters tried to hold back the tidal wave of layoffs: On Sunday, City College of San Francisco faculty marched for May Day; on Tuesday they camped in tents in front of their administration's offices; and on Thursday, 10 protesters were arrested after blocking a street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday night, the tsunami of cuts washed over them, all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 360 faculty tuned in to the virtual City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees meeting Friday afternoon, including Denise Selleck, who has taught English as a second language classes at the college since 1991. Those classes primarily serve San Francisco's many immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your decision today not only affects the 38 tenured instructors who will lose their jobs, it also affects the dozens of part-timers who you will make unemployed,\" Selleck said, during public comment. \"And it will affect the thousands of students who will not be able to get the classes that they want and need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English teacher Monica Bosson put the cuts in simpler terms to the Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's absolutely gut-wrenching,\" Bosson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five trustees voted to approve the cuts, with trustee Alan Wong casting a nay vote. A student trustee also cast a nay vote, though student trustee votes are only advisory. Board trustee Shanell Williams disagreed with criticism from the hundreds of faculty attending the virtual meeting that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the decimation of our college. There are mechanisms for rehiring and there are pathways for growth,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday's meeting, Chancellor David Martin called the layoffs a \"very difficult situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, \"this is the best path to move forward in allowing us to spend our resources in a way that best meets the students' needs into the future,\" he said. \"We do need to readjust our financial structure, not only by increasing our reserves in excess of 5%, but we also have funding needs such as scheduled maintenance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin told those in attendance that the college also has to balance paying basic needs like fixing boilers or renewing computers, and that layoffs were the only way to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Bravewoman, president-elect of AFT 2121, the City College of San Francisco teachers' union, told KQED that the trustees' vote shook the faith of college faculty, who had been working with the city of San Francisco to raise new revenues to stave off cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With four of the trustee seats open for election this November, AFT 2121 says they're now seeking to replace the trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My message all week long has been loud and clear: Your 'yes' vote on these layoffs is our 'no' vote in November,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoffs follow various faculty rallies over the last week, including the arrest of 10 faculty members at City College of San Francisco Thursday evening by San Francisco police during a protest against the layoffs at CCSF's Ocean campus, according to AFT Local 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesperson said officers arrested and cited 11 protesters for failing to obey a peace officer and for being pedestrians outside of a crosswalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"demonstrator wearing a mask stands and is handcuffed by police holding zip ties as other demonstrators remain seated in foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD officers arrest a demonstrator who had been sitting on Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to City College of San Francisco's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also isn't the first time City College of San Francisco has warned layoffs were on the way. Last year, the college voted to suspend layoffs of some 160 faculty, but the Board of Trustees warned that new funding would need to be identified to stem future cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a one-year deal. And City College will continue to have a structural budget deficit and funding gap,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872984/ccsf-approves-plan-to-avoid-layoffs-sf-mulls-permanent-fund-for-threatened-classes\">City College Board Trustee Alan Wong told KQED in May last year\u003c/a>. \"Immediately after approving this tentative agreement, we must turn our attention to long-term funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College's woes began during its 2013 accreditation crisis — which infamously threatened its closure — and sent its\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/104635/city-college-of-san-francisco-enrollment-plunges-after-accreditation-loss\"> enrollment into a spiral\u003c/a> from which it never fully recovered, teachers say. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fewer students means fewer dollars to pay for teachers, and the college is now facing \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/city-college-faculty-stage-sleep-in-ahead-of-layoff-vote/\">a $5.8 million deficit in its 2025-2026 fiscal year\u003c/a>, according to The SF Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the start of new programs like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/paying-college/free-city\">Free City College\u003c/a>, which offers free tuition to San Francisco residents, other factors soon compounded the existing drop in student population, including a statewide community college enrollment plunge during the pandemic. A CalMatters analysis found that, at 42 out of 116 California community colleges, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/03/community-college-enrollment/\">more students left in the fall of 2021 than in the fall of 2020\u003c/a>. That comprised a statewide loss of more than 300,000 students, which California tried to correct by spending an extra $120 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of unions has tried to pitch tax proposals to stem the gap, including Service Employees International Union 1021, which also represents City College of San Francisco workers and\u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/article/coalition-sf-city-college-unions-urge-mayor-breed-support-revenue-measure-restore-improve?link_id=2&can_id=8a6d4c2c56a332e581114be9f7773d13&source=email-important-updates-on-the-fight-to-defend-ccsf-3&email_referrer=email_1526655&email_subject=join-the-ccsf-community-sunday-at-may-day-rally-campaign-updates\"> met with Mayor London Breed in February to propose new tax mechanisms to raise dollars for CCSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bravewoman said those efforts are ongoing. Right now, it looks like the funding mechanism may be a parcel tax that's shaped to affect new home buyers, as opposed to existing homeowners, that may raise as much as $45 million a year. Polling shows strong support for the measure, she said. The unions will soon begin the signature-gathering effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're confident we'll be successful at the polls,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3qTKYyaCBdZQxFcITEZ8ICcB2HesJAf/edit\">recent cuts are striking departments of all sorts\u003c/a>, affecting everything from workforce training courses like aircraft maintenance and auto mechanics, to classes needed to transfer to four-year schools, like chemistry and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pink slips — layoff notices — already have been mailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold large yellow banner sign reading 'board of trustees meet students needs'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCSF teachers and students block Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to CCSF's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the May Day rally and march in San Francisco on Sunday, City College faculty who'd been served with pink slips spoke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golnar Afshar, a full-time biotechnology teacher, told KQED she got her pink slip in February. Afshar is one of only three faculty in the biotechnology program. Now those students will have fewer classes available to complete their learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Afshar's students are older and changing their careers. They have bachelor's degrees but need to fulfill hands-on training experience to get laboratory jobs — a highly sought-after career path in the Bay Area, which Afshar called \"the Mecca of biotechnology in the world.\" Now those students may have a tougher path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no idea what's going to happen,\" she said. \"If the classes are canceled, the students will not be able to finish up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Afshar, who is 55 and was looking toward retirement in the next decade, \"I'm just going to have to start looking for a job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman wearing black union shirt speaks into megaphone while supporters on either side of her raise fists in support\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathe Burick, a former dance instructor at CCSF, speaks outside Conlan Hall to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Burick was one of 10 faculty members arrested by SFPD at the protest. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two women and a young girl stand in front of a CCSF sign holding a drum and their own protest sign reading 'from CCSF to OUSD, stop school cuts and closures'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Arlene Bugayong, Ella Rose, 6, and Sarah June Harris protest layoffs at CCSF, on May 5, 2022. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Raiders \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/08/28/raiders-school-district-donation-boosts-oakland-youth-sports/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced a $250,000 donation Tuesday\u003c/a> to help save Oakland high school sports programs after the district announced it would cut nearly half of them. But some parents are looking for a more permanent solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say no amount of fundraising will fix the fact that the cuts disproportionately impacted girls, and that all of this has unearthed a deeper problem. So, they’re turning to the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don't want to have to do it,” said Oakland parent Shumsha Hanif-Cruz, lamenting Oakland Unified School District's financial straits and emphasizing that she hopes to avoid a costly class action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz's 6th grade daughter was looking forward to playing golf at Skyline High School, just like her big sister had. So Hanif-Cruz paid attention when the district announced last week it was one of 10 sports on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's a lawyer who quickly realized the cuts, which impacted nearly twice as many girls as boys, would likely violate\u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Title IX, the federal anti-discrimination law.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it isn’t just about the recent cuts -- it’s about what she believes they expose. “This has been an ongoing issue that just has not been addressed,” Hanif-Cruz said. “It's only being addressed because there was this budget deficit, and now we're all as a community able to see what probably has been going on for decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz and other parents have turned to attorney Elizabeth Kristen, who is a Title IX expert at \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legal Aid at Work in San Francisco\u003c/a>, where she runs the Fair Play for Girls in Sports program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This to me is a clean and clear and blatant violation of Title IX,” Kristen says of OUSD's cuts to high school sports, “and they already had a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen points to sports participation data collected by Oakland schools which she said shows boys have more athletic opportunities than girls. \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandtech.com/staff/ot-athletics/athletics-overview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At Oakland Tech\u003c/a>, for example, 52 percent of athletes are boys, while 48 percent are girls, despite girls making up more than half of the student population. \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandtech.com/staff/blog/2018/08/oakland-athletic-league-cuts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">District-wide\u003c/a>, 54 percent of athletes were male last year, while 45 percent were female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realize they have this budget deficit,” Kristen said, “but balancing the budget on the backs of girls sends a terrible message. It tells girls they are second-class citizens,” And, she added, “It's against the law. This is a classic story of sex discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After looking at figures for last year’s participation, national Title IX expert \u003ca href=\"http://championwomen.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Hogshead-Makar\u003c/a> agrees. “Before the cuts, girls already had fewer opportunities than boys did,” she said. “It’s 2018 and to not consider the fairness of cutting more girls' programs than boys' programs when girls already weren’t getting as much as boys were is tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogshead-Makar also raises questions about the coach-to-athlete ratio for girls at district schools. \"It appears boys get far more coaches-per-athlete than girl do,\" she wrote in an email. \"There are also lots of men coaching girls, and very few women coaching boys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz and other parents expressed frustration and sadness at the position she and other Oakland parents find themselves in. While keenly aware that legal action against the\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-unified-may-eliminate-nearly-340-positions-in-one-year-to-stay-fiscally-solvent/601091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> already cash-strapped district\u003c/a> could lead to a costly lawsuit, they’re inclined to believe that getting a lawyer involved may be the only way to ensure the district rights its course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any desire to sue Oakland Unified,” said parent Christian Schreiber, an attorney who's handled civil rights cases. “But I also don’t think that they’re above being sued. I hope it doesn’t come to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Hanif-Cruz and other parents move ahead, Kristen said the first step would be to send a demand letter to the district with the intention of spurring negotiations about how to right the alleged Title IX violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen has \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/releases/female-athletes-and-school-district-settle-title-ix-case-after-ninth-circuit-ruling/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successfully sued districts\u003c/a> for Title IX violations in the past. She said she starts with a demand letter hoping to garner a district's cooperation, rather than end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really makes sense to try to resolve these things quickly,\" she said. \"High school is a fleeting time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, Kristen said, a demand letter leads to an enforceable settlement agreement. \"We could go to court if they don't follow what they say they’re going to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advantage of a formal legal process, Kristen said, is that it gives parents a seat at the table, allowing them to help shape the scope of any remedy, \"as opposed to letting it just play out the way it may or may not play out behind the scenes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that the district recognizes that its actions create the real threat of Title IX litigation,” Schreiber said, “and they take appropriate and immediate action to reconsider the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, the district announced three fall sports, girls tennis, girls golf and girls lacrosse are coming back, thanks to donations of close to $40,000. That allows about 150 girls to keep playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD spokesman John Sasaki said that helps balance the impact. “We’re certainly more fair than we were a couple days ago,” he said Monday at a press conference. The $250,000 donation from the Raiders will go a long way toward bringing back other sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kristen says reinstating programs temporarily through outside money does not solve the equity issue. \"The problem is the way that it has been packaged as a temporary solution and that girls' sports seem more contingent and less supported by the schools,\" she said. “They’ve sent a message to girls that they aren’t as important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen and Hogshead-Makar point out that Title IX violations are common in high school athletics. \"It's actually rare for us to find a school where they do have parity for girls in sports even though this law has been around for such a long time,\" Kristen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a longtime Oakland resident, Kristen said Oakland Unified's data is particularly frustrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a community that should be committed to equality for girls, so the fact that this has been going on under our noses for all this time is really disappointing.\" She added that in her experience, once she starts looking into a district, she \"usually finds these kinds of athletic participation gaps for girls are really the tip of the iceberg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district declined to comment on the prospect of legal action. Requests to the district's Title IX coordinator, Gabriel Valenzuela, were directed to spokesman Sasaki, who said Valenzuela was \"of course involved in the process to ensure that we are complying with federal law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officials did not address questions about underlying Title IX compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD has not explained why it failed to consider the Title IX implications in the first place. Officials have said only that the decisions were intended to impact the smallest number of students.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it isn’t just about the recent cuts -- it’s about what she believes they expose. “This has been an ongoing issue that just has not been addressed,” Hanif-Cruz said. “It's only being addressed because there was this budget deficit, and now we're all as a community able to see what probably has been going on for decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz and other parents have turned to attorney Elizabeth Kristen, who is a Title IX expert at \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/staff/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legal Aid at Work in San Francisco\u003c/a>, where she runs the Fair Play for Girls in Sports program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This to me is a clean and clear and blatant violation of Title IX,” Kristen says of OUSD's cuts to high school sports, “and they already had a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen points to sports participation data collected by Oakland schools which she said shows boys have more athletic opportunities than girls. \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandtech.com/staff/ot-athletics/athletics-overview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At Oakland Tech\u003c/a>, for example, 52 percent of athletes are boys, while 48 percent are girls, despite girls making up more than half of the student population. \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandtech.com/staff/blog/2018/08/oakland-athletic-league-cuts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">District-wide\u003c/a>, 54 percent of athletes were male last year, while 45 percent were female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realize they have this budget deficit,” Kristen said, “but balancing the budget on the backs of girls sends a terrible message. 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This is a classic story of sex discrimination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After looking at figures for last year’s participation, national Title IX expert \u003ca href=\"http://championwomen.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Hogshead-Makar\u003c/a> agrees. “Before the cuts, girls already had fewer opportunities than boys did,” she said. “It’s 2018 and to not consider the fairness of cutting more girls' programs than boys' programs when girls already weren’t getting as much as boys were is tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogshead-Makar also raises questions about the coach-to-athlete ratio for girls at district schools. \"It appears boys get far more coaches-per-athlete than girl do,\" she wrote in an email. \"There are also lots of men coaching girls, and very few women coaching boys.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanif-Cruz and other parents expressed frustration and sadness at the position she and other Oakland parents find themselves in. While keenly aware that legal action against the\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-unified-may-eliminate-nearly-340-positions-in-one-year-to-stay-fiscally-solvent/601091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> already cash-strapped district\u003c/a> could lead to a costly lawsuit, they’re inclined to believe that getting a lawyer involved may be the only way to ensure the district rights its course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any desire to sue Oakland Unified,” said parent Christian Schreiber, an attorney who's handled civil rights cases. “But I also don’t think that they’re above being sued. I hope it doesn’t come to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Hanif-Cruz and other parents move ahead, Kristen said the first step would be to send a demand letter to the district with the intention of spurring negotiations about how to right the alleged Title IX violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen has \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/releases/female-athletes-and-school-district-settle-title-ix-case-after-ninth-circuit-ruling/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successfully sued districts\u003c/a> for Title IX violations in the past. 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The program is already operating on less than half its former budget this year – about $850,000 — with bridge funds. Next year’s budget would be under $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a very difficult process for all of us,” Superintendent Donald Evans said. “This is a nationally recognized program. But that was when we had $2 million. We can no longer retain that type of program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts affect cooking and gardening classes at every school in the district, except King Middle School, where the garden is operated under separate funding by the non-profit Edible Schoolyard Project, founded by Alice Waters of Chez Panisse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their long discussion, the board members appeared to agree that the current BUSD program needs to eliminate its cooking classes for now and offer limited gardening classes. The latest proposal called for gardening classes for pre-kindergarten through grade 7 (eliminating grades 8-12). However, board members said they’d also like to fund the garden at Berkeley Technical Academy (which is shared by the Independent Study students), and that will be added to the proposal the board is expected to pass Wednesday, March 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even at a reduced cost of $485,000 for the coming year, with only $178,000 requested in new funding, the board members were very concerned about whether the budget could accommodate the outlay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m struggling with this,” board member Karen Hemphill said. “We’re having a lot of things come to the board, piecemeal, that are all a priority, that all have their supporters. Nobody here doesn’t love this program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will be committing to funding only one year right now. Board members recognized that a longer term financial commitment is probably better for attracting major donors. However, with changes in school funding this coming year (the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/\" target=\"_blank\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a> from the state), the district is still sorting out priorities for any new monies it gets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members discussed allowing individual PTAs to raise funds supporting cooking classes in their own schools. Hemphill was initially opposed, saying it would create inequalities between the schools. 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That’s less than the $2 million cost of the full cooking and gardening program, and it’s unlikely all the proceeds from the tax would go to the program. A further hurdle is that any funding for the cooking and gardening program would have to be re-approved annually by the city council, if, as expected, the tax is a general tax (which would only require a 50% vote to pass). A special tax, which would segregate the funds for specific uses, requires a two-thirds vote to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Starting March 26 the board moves its meeting location to 2020 Bonar St. Meetings will no longer take place at 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Blue Angels will not soar and roar and boom over the Bay Area this October. They will not jet and pirouette, and many fans of the Navy's demonstration squadron will be sad when Fleet Week rolls around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77643\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/08/see-the-blue-angels-fly-over-the-golden-gate-bridge-and-more-big-bay-weekend-photos/blueangels/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77643\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-77643\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/blueangels-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Blue Angels perform over San Francisco\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Blue Angels perform over San Francisco. \u003cem>Piyush Kumar/Flickr.\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not that the stunt fliers have lost popularity or been called to the defense of the country. Rather the sequestration budget cuts have grounded them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that raises the question, \"How much do the Blue Angels cost?\" As it happens, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/08/how-much-do-the-blue-angels-cost/\">News Fix delved into that very question\u003c/a> the last time the fliers were in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one from the Navy wanted to comment, but based on\u003ca href=\"http://www.finance.hq.navy.mil/FMB/13pres/OMN_Vol1_book.pdf\"> this document\u003c/a>, we came up with a total budget of $40 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Blue Angels planned 34 shows in 2013, of which 28 were two-day events, including a visit to the Bay Area for Fleet Week Oct. 12-13.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fleet Week planners, Air Show Network, estimated that a million people watched the Blue Angels in the Bay Area, which would mean that the cost was in the ballpark of $1 per person. Maybe it's time for the Navy to pass a hat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did we get to this turn of events?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sequestration cuts date back to August 2011, when Democrats and Republicans in Congress were battling over the amount the federal government could legally borrow to pay its bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats agreed to budget cuts. Democrats didn't want to cut, or at least not much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a compromise, Congress came up with a package of cuts that would go into effect if a bipartisan committee couldn't come up with a better deal: $850 billion would be subtracted from the budgets of dozens of federal agencies over 10 years, and half of it would come out of the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the committee failed to strike a deal. This time most Democrats wanted to use both tax increases and budget cuts to reach a more balanced budget. Most Republicans would not consider a tax increase. So the sequestration cuts went into effect starting March 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various departments have been figuring out what to cut, and the Navy came up with the Blue Angels, among other programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot remains to be determined. Here are the reductions that President Barack Obama warned California to expect, back when he was trying to convince Congress what a bad idea sequestration would be:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca title=\"View California Sequester Budget Cuts on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/127246361/California-Sequester-Budget-Cuts\">California Sequester Budget Cuts\u003c/a> by \u003ca title=\"View Lairdh's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/Lairdh\">Lairdh\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/127246361/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-17vj1ey1buth49s95uyf\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Erica Perez and Kendall Taggart, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/state%E2%80%99s-community-colleges-spend-millions-duplicative-administrators-4278\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s 72 community college districts spend tens of millions of dollars on administrative positions that could be consolidated or shared by districts a short drive away, a California Watch analysis has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91638\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 266px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/richard-raasueld-at-copper-mountain-college-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91638\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91638\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Richard-Raasueld-at-Copper-Mountain-College-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Raasueld studies at Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree. (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\" width=\"266\" height=\"183\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Raasueld studies at Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree. (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the wake of huge budget shortfalls, California’s vast community college system has reduced its core academic functions – slashing millions of dollars by eliminating nearly a quarter of class sections, cutting services and laying off employees. At the start of the fall 2012 semester, more than 470,000 students \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618107-press-release.html\" target=\"_blank\">had been waitlisted for classes\u003c/a> at community colleges statewide. But millions of dollars still are spent on duplicative administrative costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of the state’s community college districts are within 20 miles of another district. And the vast majority of those districts have a single college. If these districts shared administrators, they potentially could shave millions off their expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Riverside, Mt. San Jacinto and Desert community college districts, all in Riverside County. Together, they operate five colleges with three chancellor’s offices, three human resources departments, three finance offices, three facilities departments and three academic affairs offices, not to mention three boards of trustees.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of employing the 15 executives who lead these departments, plus one or two support staff for each, totals nearly $6 million. The cost of running the three boards, including elections, legal support, stipends, benefits, support staff and travel expenses, equals nearly $1.7 million, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91642\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/infographic-look-administrative-costs-across-community-colleges-4281\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91642\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91642 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/community-college-infographic.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: A look at administrative costs across community colleges (California Watch)\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infographic: A look at administrative costs across community colleges. Click on this image for details. (California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three districts employed more than 130 executives in total in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the three districts could consolidate and whittle their bureaucracies down to one chancellor, one board and one head of each big administrative office, the savings would total $4.9 million – money that could, for example, pay for 960 additional class sections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray believes the savings could be even bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this one district alone, you could easily save $5, $6, $7 million,” he said. “Multiply that up and down the state and you get a big number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether the system should consider merging some districts to save money, Gray didn’t hesitate. “Without a doubt and unquestionably, the answer to that is we should do that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could look at those facts, take note of the state’s revenue challenges and wonder why lawmakers aren’t already ordering cuts, mergers and cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first you’d need a lesson on the way things operate in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is extremely difficult for a local chancellor like myself to try and initiate this type of discussion unless it’s really starting from the top,” said Gray, noting that no one in the state Capitol is championing consolidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of the community college districts, the potential savings may never be realized because the system of local districts is so deeply entrenched. In fact, obscure statutes in the California Education Code make it all but impossible to save money through merging districts – at least in the short run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have borne the brunt of cuts to the system. They have been slapped with fees that have risen 130 percent in the past five years and have been unable to get into the classes they need. But the status quo has been protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91639\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/riverside-community-college-dist-chancellor-gregory-gray-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91639\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91639 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Riverside-Community-College-Dist-Chancellor-Gregory-Gray-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state’s community college system isn’t the only place in California’s $92 billion budget where excess can be found. California Watch chose to zero in on the college system because of its sheer size and because it touches so many lives. Some 2.4 million students attend community college classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s community college system is the largest in the nation and the backbone of higher education in the state, serving the vast majority of the state’s college students at the lowest price with the greatest number of locations. The system is especially essential now, as President Barack Obama has pushed for greater resources for community colleges to shore up the country’s workforce through job training and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch reporters examined parts of the state community college system’s bureaucracy to identify spending patterns and understand why reforms may prove elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 72 districts keep payroll and other data in different formats, which makes comparison difficult. So California Watch drilled down on 16 districts, taking into consideration the availability of detailed payroll data, geographic proximity and district size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of 16 districts had duplicative executives or managers in 21 positions, not including chancellors and presidents. A total of 253 individuals cost the districts $30 million in salaries and at least $7.9 million in benefits in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broader analysis of the system revealed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state Education Code prevents districts from laying off any administrators for the first two years after merging, making it more difficult for districts to save money by consolidating.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The public appears open to change. California Watch commissioned a Field Poll that found an overwhelming majority favors consolidating community college administrative functions to save money.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As the ranks of elected community college trustees have swollen, their power and profile have diminished. The state pays for 442 community college district trustees, including an average annual cost of $5 million for elections. But the authority of these elected board members weakened significantly 35 years ago when voters approved Proposition 13, which transferred control over revenues from the boards of trustees to the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Field Poll conducted in the fall for California Watch found that the majority of respondents had little or no knowledge about district board elections.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Unlike the centrally managed systems for the California State University and University of California, community colleges sprouted up largely as extensions of high school districts. That helps explain why they’re organized into 72 locally governed bodies dotting the California terrain – each with its own bureaucracy\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Read more on this issue:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/state%E2%80%99s-community-colleges-spend-millions-duplicative-administrators-4278\">State’s community colleges spend millions on duplicative administrators\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/blog/post/community-college-boards-lose-power-stature-system-changes-4275\">Community college boards lose power, stature as system changes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/blog/post/how-we-analyzed-community-colleges%E2%80%99-administrative-costs-4274\">How we analyzed community colleges’ administrative costs \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2010, community colleges reported spending at least $1.7 billion on top-level administration, including pay for district executives and the cost of the 72 separate governing boards, according to a California Watch analysis of U.S. Department of Education data. The total cost of the system that year topped $10 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 72 districts don’t all report administrative spending to the federal government in the same way. That makes it difficult to compare how much each district spends on bureaucracy or to compare the community college system to other higher education systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Riverside Community College District, for example, included $3.5 million in state money it spent on enterprises such as parking and student activities. The Long Beach Community College District did not include that category of expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, said the state should consider district consolidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that there (are) more individual districts than is efficient and, in many cases, the efficiencies that can be gained would mean more classes for students,” Williams said. “And that’s really the tragedy of the system, is the lack of funding and the lack of reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, while lawmakers can encourage a statewide examination into the costs and benefits of district unification – through studies and hearings – Williams said local leaders ultimately need to sign on to make such a move successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating a new district\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see how much cost a district structure can add, consider how much California paid when it built one from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seeds of Copper Mountain College in the High Desert took root in 1967, when the Desert Community College District in Palm Desert began offering college classes at local schools in the Morongo Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leaders in the area began to envision having their own full-fledged college. In 1970, the district bought land on the side of Copper Mountain in Joshua Tree with the idea of eventually building a campus there. And in 1977, voters elected the first Morongo Basin resident to the district board of trustees. Virnita McDonald advocated for a college at Copper Mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new foundation, the Friends of Copper Mountain College, began raising money for a building campaign. Its success \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618112-cmc-master-plan-2007-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">led to the opening of the Copper Mountain campus\u003c/a> in 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, college leaders wanted independence from the Palm Desert district. They argued that their campus wasn’t getting its fair share of resources. They believed the district should have built the Copper Mountain campus sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt that we were significantly different from the Palm Desert community,” said Owen Gillick, who has been involved with Copper Mountain College since 1975 and recently retired from the district’s board of trustees. “We felt that even having one of five trustees residing here did not give … us the control over our destiny that we felt we deserved to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated by what it saw as a lack of action by district leaders, the Friends of Copper Mountain College \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618118-feb-1998-dccd-meeting.html\" target=\"_blank\">met with Republican state Sen. Jim Brulte\u003c/a> in 1998, hoping for a political solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte agreed to tackle the issue. \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/sen/sb_1651-1700/sb_1665_bill_19980217_introduced.html\" target=\"_blank\">A bill he introduced\u003c/a> authorized a new, separately funded district – without needing the approval of voters in Palm Desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Wolf, then the executive director of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, said in an interview that he was uncomfortable with the creation of a district of that size in that location because of obvious fiscal limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91640\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/copper-mountain-college-bell-center-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91640\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91640 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Copper-Mountain-College-Bell-Center-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\" Copper Mountain College’s Bell Center, a 40,000-square-foot multiuse facility.(Carlos Puma/California Watch) \" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copper Mountain College’s Bell Center, a 40,000-square-foot multiuse facility.\u003cbr>(Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas Nussbaum, chancellor of the community college system at the time, also said he had concerns – not only about the extra cost, but also about the circumvention of the standard process for forming a district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the involvement of a powerful legislator made the move inevitable, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte “had already made up his mind on the subject and probably had the ability to pass whatever legislation he wanted to pass,” Nussbaum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, the bill became law. Almost overnight, the region went from having one college and one district to two colleges and two districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new designation came new trappings. The district created two new jobs that mirrored positions at Palm Desert’s College of the Desert: a chief human resources officer and a chief business officer. Copper Mountain also hired a director of fiscal services, promoted the provost to CEO and promoted a professor to a position as chief instructional officer. A new local board was elected. State budgets provided $3 million in the first two years to foot the bill for the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1998, before the secession, to 2002, four years after the split, the cost of top-level administration for College of the Desert and Copper Mountain College doubled, growing at twice the rate of the system as a whole. Copper Mountain currently has nine administrators and faculty who make more than $100,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both districts are among California’s smallest. The Desert Community College District enrolls roughly 13,000 students. Copper Mountain, the spinoff, is the second-tiniest district in the state, with 3,000 students enrolled last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiny districts are, by nature, inefficient. In fact, their fixed costs are so high that the state funding formula adds on extra money for them. As a result, per-student funding at Copper Mountain in 2010 was about $8,200 – more than 40 percent higher than the state average of $5,700.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve got to have a board, they’ve got to have a basic campus, they’ve got to have a basic administration, they’ve got to have a basic faculty even if their class size is very small,” Wolf said. “So why would you create something like this … when there’s 55 miles away a great big campus that provides everything?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gillick did not dispute that forming a new small district entailed significant costs. But he said consolidating Copper Mountain with a neighboring district would be an “unsuccessful implant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These small things (districts) are costly, but they have a value that can’t be measured in bucks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte, now the California Republican Party chairman, said there was no requirement in the law that the new district add more administrators. The move had a positive impact in the area, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, additional resources went to Copper Mountain, and it eliminated a tremendous source of conflict within the Morongo Basin,” he said. “The people of the Morongo Basin got to have control of the college district in their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overlapping roles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at a map of California’s community college districts, the dots tend to cluster. More than half of the districts are within 20 miles of at least one other community college district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each district comes with a cadre of highly compensated executives who do the same thing as their counterpart with the same title at a district 10 or 15 miles away. In theory, geographically close districts could share a vice president of human resources or a chief business officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how much could be cut, but the community college system spends at least 17 cents of every dollar on top-level administrative costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch analyzed payroll data for 16 districts. Combined, the districts – a mix of small and larger ones – had 18 directors of public relations, 21 directors of campus facilities and 12 institutional research chiefs. Not including the district superintendents or college presidents, the districts had some level of overlap in 21 executive or management positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, colleges have dealt with budget cuts by cutting classes. Before last year’s passage of Proposition 30, which temporarily increases income and sales taxes to fund education, funding for community colleges had decreased by $809 million, or 12 percent, since 2008-09.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that time period, the number of students served sunk by nearly half a million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618124-pr-budgetimpactsurveyquestions-082812-final.html\" target=\"_blank\">an August 2012 survey\u003c/a> conducted by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, 66 of 78 colleges that responded reported having waitlists for fall classes. On average, there were 7,157 students waitlisted per college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley City College student Clay Smith, 22, witnessed the effects of reduced class offerings firsthand. Last semester was the most hectic he’d ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were at least 10 kids standing in every class,” Smith said. “There’s people on the floor and in the hall. … I made sure to get to class 20 minutes early so I knew I had a seat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith needs one more business class to meet the requirements to transfer to a UC school. But he never thought it would take him three years to get here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no clue,” Smith said. “I didn’t think it was going to take this long of a journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Obstacles to consolidation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Education Code makes it all but impossible for districts to achieve cost savings right away by merging operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Napa Valley, Solano and Contra Costa community college districts, which together oversee five colleges. The district offices are within 15 to 25 miles of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined, they serve about 81,000 students – fewer than at City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at them together, Napa Valley, Solano and Contra Costa had three chief business officers, five directors of campus facilities, three athletic directors and three public relations chiefs in 2011. They also had two directors of information technology, chief financial aid officers and vice presidents of student success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 12 key executive or administrative positions that clearly overlapped across all three districts and two other positions duplicated in 2 out of 3 districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salaries and benefits for these 43 people totaled roughly $6.4 million. The districts employed more than 150 executives in total in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some district officials questioned whether a district spanning three counties would reduce colleges’ ability to respond to local business needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy Leong, spokesman for the Contra Costa Community College District, said that while his district sees jobs in the energy sector, Napa may see more in the agricultural or wine industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Community colleges in those respective areas work closely with the businesses in order to meet those educational needs for their future workforce,” Leong said. “The question becomes, by proposed consolidation … will you be able to still meet the business needs and training needs for your students in the same way?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulian Ligioso, vice president of finance and administration for Solano Community College, said a merger would entail many additional costs. For example, the districts would have to standardize their curriculums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While on the surface, I think it’s certainly not something you cannot do, there are many obstacles you’d have to address in trying to merge the institutions,” Ligioso said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The districts have not discussed merging, but even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to immediately reduce duplicative positions. California’s Education Code \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618120-california-education-code-sec-88018.html\" target=\"_blank\">prohibits districts from laying off nonacademic employees\u003c/a> for two years following a merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That protection originates from a 1961 bill sponsored by the California School Employees Association, which ensured a year of job security for nonacademic employees after a merger. The union sponsored another bill in 1970 that pushed the protection to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before a merger could be approved, a litany of other financial, legal and political hurdles would stand in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several groups must sign off on the deal, including the community college system’s Board of Governors, a committee of K-12 school officials in every affected county and the merging districts’ boards of trustees – who which would be voting on whether to eliminate their own positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91641\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/berkeley-city-college-student-clay-smith-by-michael-short-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91641\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91641 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Berkeley-City-College-student-Clay-Smith-by-Michael-Short-cal-watch.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley City College student Clay Smith (Michael Short/California Watch)\" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley City College student Clay Smith (Michael Short/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters in every affected county would have to approve the merger at the polls, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The colleges, meanwhile, would have to get approval from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. They would have to show that they could maintain the same quality of instruction and student support. The process entails legal review and a fee of $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new district also would have to sort out multiple collective bargaining agreements, each with its own salary schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill McGinnis, a trustee at the Butte-Glenn Community College District in Oroville, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618122-mcginnis-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">took a deeper look\u003c/a> at these laws and regulations in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very complicated process and a very costly process,” McGinnis said. “There’s no cost savings for at least two years. In order to make it work, you’d definitely need to have changes in the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say districts that currently operate multiple colleges are more efficient than single-college districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch looked at three years of administrator-to-student ratios for each district. While the ratios varied, no clear pattern emerged that would explain why some districts had lots of administrators per student and others had very few. Districts with multiple colleges, for example, were no more likely than single-college districts to have a low administrator-to-student ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community college officials point to this fact when they caution against merging districts. They often cite the state’s largest district, the nine-college, 230,000-student Los Angeles Community College District, as a highly bureaucratic organization they do not want to emulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mergers would be rather complicated legally, and we would have to be convinced that such mergers would bring about savings,” said Jack Scott, former chancellor of the California Community Colleges. “Unfortunately, there’s not evidence that (multicollege districts) operate more efficiently than some of the surrounding districts that are one-college districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small districts consider collaboration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the state’s small districts are in precarious financial straits because budget cuts are making it increasingly difficult to support the administrative costs of running a district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When statewide budget cuts hit, community colleges get lower enrollment targets – meaning fewer classes and student services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But districts can scale down instructional and support services more easily than they can adjust the cost of administrative services such as payroll, accounting, information technology and institutional research, said Yuba Community College District Chancellor Doug Houston. That means courses and educational services end up on the chopping block first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re making the cuts by reducing our core academic functions, and we’re kind of chipping away at the margins of being more efficient with those noncore functions,” Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal and political obstacles involved in merging districts have stopped districts from getting past the most preliminary discussions about consolidating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston stops short of advocating that small districts should merge to save money. He’s concerned that moving a district administration farther away would take something away from those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he has been working with a group of mostly small rural college districts to explore ways to share some of these administrative services, such as payroll services or server farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group includes the Mendocino-Lake, Siskiyou Joint, Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint, Lassen, Feather River, Lake Tahoe, Monterey Peninsula\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> Butte-Glenn and Yuba districts in Northern California, plus the Copper Mountain, Barstow and Palo Verde college districts in the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that for these smaller colleges that they’re already on the precipice, and that another round of cuts will put them in extreme jeopardy,” Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group does not yet have an estimate of the potential savings districts could achieve. At Houston’s former district, the 5,000-student Lassen Community College District in Susanville, he estimated administrative costs made up 21 percent of the budget. He figures at least a quarter of that could be shaved through collaboration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston and Kindred Murillo, president of the Lake Tahoe Community College District, are talking about sharing one or more senior administrators in the future, even though the two district offices are 145 miles apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The districts’ immediate financial woes are only the short-term context for the push toward collaboration, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bigger context is that the paying public, quite legitimately, is skeptical as to how efficient we have been in public services and is demanding greater efficiency,” Houston said. “And I think legitimately so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Watch reporter Kendall Taggart contributed to this story. This story was edited by Mark Katches. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of employing the 15 executives who lead these departments, plus one or two support staff for each, totals nearly $6 million. The cost of running the three boards, including elections, legal support, stipends, benefits, support staff and travel expenses, equals nearly $1.7 million, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91642\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/infographic-look-administrative-costs-across-community-colleges-4281\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91642\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91642 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/community-college-infographic.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: A look at administrative costs across community colleges (California Watch)\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infographic: A look at administrative costs across community colleges. Click on this image for details. (California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three districts employed more than 130 executives in total in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the three districts could consolidate and whittle their bureaucracies down to one chancellor, one board and one head of each big administrative office, the savings would total $4.9 million – money that could, for example, pay for 960 additional class sections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray believes the savings could be even bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this one district alone, you could easily save $5, $6, $7 million,” he said. “Multiply that up and down the state and you get a big number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether the system should consider merging some districts to save money, Gray didn’t hesitate. “Without a doubt and unquestionably, the answer to that is we should do that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could look at those facts, take note of the state’s revenue challenges and wonder why lawmakers aren’t already ordering cuts, mergers and cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first you’d need a lesson on the way things operate in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is extremely difficult for a local chancellor like myself to try and initiate this type of discussion unless it’s really starting from the top,” said Gray, noting that no one in the state Capitol is championing consolidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of the community college districts, the potential savings may never be realized because the system of local districts is so deeply entrenched. In fact, obscure statutes in the California Education Code make it all but impossible to save money through merging districts – at least in the short run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have borne the brunt of cuts to the system. They have been slapped with fees that have risen 130 percent in the past five years and have been unable to get into the classes they need. But the status quo has been protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91639\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/riverside-community-college-dist-chancellor-gregory-gray-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91639\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91639 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Riverside-Community-College-Dist-Chancellor-Gregory-Gray-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state’s community college system isn’t the only place in California’s $92 billion budget where excess can be found. California Watch chose to zero in on the college system because of its sheer size and because it touches so many lives. Some 2.4 million students attend community college classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s community college system is the largest in the nation and the backbone of higher education in the state, serving the vast majority of the state’s college students at the lowest price with the greatest number of locations. The system is especially essential now, as President Barack Obama has pushed for greater resources for community colleges to shore up the country’s workforce through job training and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch reporters examined parts of the state community college system’s bureaucracy to identify spending patterns and understand why reforms may prove elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 72 districts keep payroll and other data in different formats, which makes comparison difficult. So California Watch drilled down on 16 districts, taking into consideration the availability of detailed payroll data, geographic proximity and district size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of 16 districts had duplicative executives or managers in 21 positions, not including chancellors and presidents. A total of 253 individuals cost the districts $30 million in salaries and at least $7.9 million in benefits in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broader analysis of the system revealed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state Education Code prevents districts from laying off any administrators for the first two years after merging, making it more difficult for districts to save money by consolidating.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The public appears open to change. California Watch commissioned a Field Poll that found an overwhelming majority favors consolidating community college administrative functions to save money.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As the ranks of elected community college trustees have swollen, their power and profile have diminished. The state pays for 442 community college district trustees, including an average annual cost of $5 million for elections. But the authority of these elected board members weakened significantly 35 years ago when voters approved Proposition 13, which transferred control over revenues from the boards of trustees to the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Field Poll conducted in the fall for California Watch found that the majority of respondents had little or no knowledge about district board elections.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Unlike the centrally managed systems for the California State University and University of California, community colleges sprouted up largely as extensions of high school districts. That helps explain why they’re organized into 72 locally governed bodies dotting the California terrain – each with its own bureaucracy\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Read more on this issue:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/state%E2%80%99s-community-colleges-spend-millions-duplicative-administrators-4278\">State’s community colleges spend millions on duplicative administrators\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/blog/post/community-college-boards-lose-power-stature-system-changes-4275\">Community college boards lose power, stature as system changes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/blog/post/how-we-analyzed-community-colleges%E2%80%99-administrative-costs-4274\">How we analyzed community colleges’ administrative costs \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2010, community colleges reported spending at least $1.7 billion on top-level administration, including pay for district executives and the cost of the 72 separate governing boards, according to a California Watch analysis of U.S. Department of Education data. The total cost of the system that year topped $10 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 72 districts don’t all report administrative spending to the federal government in the same way. That makes it difficult to compare how much each district spends on bureaucracy or to compare the community college system to other higher education systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Riverside Community College District, for example, included $3.5 million in state money it spent on enterprises such as parking and student activities. The Long Beach Community College District did not include that category of expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, said the state should consider district consolidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that there (are) more individual districts than is efficient and, in many cases, the efficiencies that can be gained would mean more classes for students,” Williams said. “And that’s really the tragedy of the system, is the lack of funding and the lack of reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, while lawmakers can encourage a statewide examination into the costs and benefits of district unification – through studies and hearings – Williams said local leaders ultimately need to sign on to make such a move successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating a new district\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see how much cost a district structure can add, consider how much California paid when it built one from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seeds of Copper Mountain College in the High Desert took root in 1967, when the Desert Community College District in Palm Desert began offering college classes at local schools in the Morongo Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leaders in the area began to envision having their own full-fledged college. In 1970, the district bought land on the side of Copper Mountain in Joshua Tree with the idea of eventually building a campus there. And in 1977, voters elected the first Morongo Basin resident to the district board of trustees. Virnita McDonald advocated for a college at Copper Mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new foundation, the Friends of Copper Mountain College, began raising money for a building campaign. Its success \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618112-cmc-master-plan-2007-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">led to the opening of the Copper Mountain campus\u003c/a> in 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, college leaders wanted independence from the Palm Desert district. They argued that their campus wasn’t getting its fair share of resources. They believed the district should have built the Copper Mountain campus sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt that we were significantly different from the Palm Desert community,” said Owen Gillick, who has been involved with Copper Mountain College since 1975 and recently retired from the district’s board of trustees. “We felt that even having one of five trustees residing here did not give … us the control over our destiny that we felt we deserved to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated by what it saw as a lack of action by district leaders, the Friends of Copper Mountain College \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618118-feb-1998-dccd-meeting.html\" target=\"_blank\">met with Republican state Sen. Jim Brulte\u003c/a> in 1998, hoping for a political solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte agreed to tackle the issue. \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/sen/sb_1651-1700/sb_1665_bill_19980217_introduced.html\" target=\"_blank\">A bill he introduced\u003c/a> authorized a new, separately funded district – without needing the approval of voters in Palm Desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Wolf, then the executive director of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, said in an interview that he was uncomfortable with the creation of a district of that size in that location because of obvious fiscal limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91640\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/copper-mountain-college-bell-center-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91640\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91640 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Copper-Mountain-College-Bell-Center-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\" Copper Mountain College’s Bell Center, a 40,000-square-foot multiuse facility.(Carlos Puma/California Watch) \" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copper Mountain College’s Bell Center, a 40,000-square-foot multiuse facility.\u003cbr>(Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas Nussbaum, chancellor of the community college system at the time, also said he had concerns – not only about the extra cost, but also about the circumvention of the standard process for forming a district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the involvement of a powerful legislator made the move inevitable, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte “had already made up his mind on the subject and probably had the ability to pass whatever legislation he wanted to pass,” Nussbaum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, the bill became law. Almost overnight, the region went from having one college and one district to two colleges and two districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new designation came new trappings. The district created two new jobs that mirrored positions at Palm Desert’s College of the Desert: a chief human resources officer and a chief business officer. Copper Mountain also hired a director of fiscal services, promoted the provost to CEO and promoted a professor to a position as chief instructional officer. A new local board was elected. State budgets provided $3 million in the first two years to foot the bill for the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1998, before the secession, to 2002, four years after the split, the cost of top-level administration for College of the Desert and Copper Mountain College doubled, growing at twice the rate of the system as a whole. Copper Mountain currently has nine administrators and faculty who make more than $100,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both districts are among California’s smallest. The Desert Community College District enrolls roughly 13,000 students. Copper Mountain, the spinoff, is the second-tiniest district in the state, with 3,000 students enrolled last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiny districts are, by nature, inefficient. In fact, their fixed costs are so high that the state funding formula adds on extra money for them. As a result, per-student funding at Copper Mountain in 2010 was about $8,200 – more than 40 percent higher than the state average of $5,700.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve got to have a board, they’ve got to have a basic campus, they’ve got to have a basic administration, they’ve got to have a basic faculty even if their class size is very small,” Wolf said. “So why would you create something like this … when there’s 55 miles away a great big campus that provides everything?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gillick did not dispute that forming a new small district entailed significant costs. But he said consolidating Copper Mountain with a neighboring district would be an “unsuccessful implant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These small things (districts) are costly, but they have a value that can’t be measured in bucks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte, now the California Republican Party chairman, said there was no requirement in the law that the new district add more administrators. The move had a positive impact in the area, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, additional resources went to Copper Mountain, and it eliminated a tremendous source of conflict within the Morongo Basin,” he said. “The people of the Morongo Basin got to have control of the college district in their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overlapping roles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at a map of California’s community college districts, the dots tend to cluster. More than half of the districts are within 20 miles of at least one other community college district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each district comes with a cadre of highly compensated executives who do the same thing as their counterpart with the same title at a district 10 or 15 miles away. In theory, geographically close districts could share a vice president of human resources or a chief business officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how much could be cut, but the community college system spends at least 17 cents of every dollar on top-level administrative costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch analyzed payroll data for 16 districts. Combined, the districts – a mix of small and larger ones – had 18 directors of public relations, 21 directors of campus facilities and 12 institutional research chiefs. Not including the district superintendents or college presidents, the districts had some level of overlap in 21 executive or management positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, colleges have dealt with budget cuts by cutting classes. Before last year’s passage of Proposition 30, which temporarily increases income and sales taxes to fund education, funding for community colleges had decreased by $809 million, or 12 percent, since 2008-09.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that time period, the number of students served sunk by nearly half a million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618124-pr-budgetimpactsurveyquestions-082812-final.html\" target=\"_blank\">an August 2012 survey\u003c/a> conducted by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, 66 of 78 colleges that responded reported having waitlists for fall classes. On average, there were 7,157 students waitlisted per college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley City College student Clay Smith, 22, witnessed the effects of reduced class offerings firsthand. Last semester was the most hectic he’d ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were at least 10 kids standing in every class,” Smith said. “There’s people on the floor and in the hall. … I made sure to get to class 20 minutes early so I knew I had a seat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith needs one more business class to meet the requirements to transfer to a UC school. But he never thought it would take him three years to get here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no clue,” Smith said. “I didn’t think it was going to take this long of a journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Obstacles to consolidation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Education Code makes it all but impossible for districts to achieve cost savings right away by merging operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Napa Valley, Solano and Contra Costa community college districts, which together oversee five colleges. The district offices are within 15 to 25 miles of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined, they serve about 81,000 students – fewer than at City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at them together, Napa Valley, Solano and Contra Costa had three chief business officers, five directors of campus facilities, three athletic directors and three public relations chiefs in 2011. They also had two directors of information technology, chief financial aid officers and vice presidents of student success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 12 key executive or administrative positions that clearly overlapped across all three districts and two other positions duplicated in 2 out of 3 districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salaries and benefits for these 43 people totaled roughly $6.4 million. The districts employed more than 150 executives in total in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some district officials questioned whether a district spanning three counties would reduce colleges’ ability to respond to local business needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy Leong, spokesman for the Contra Costa Community College District, said that while his district sees jobs in the energy sector, Napa may see more in the agricultural or wine industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Community colleges in those respective areas work closely with the businesses in order to meet those educational needs for their future workforce,” Leong said. “The question becomes, by proposed consolidation … will you be able to still meet the business needs and training needs for your students in the same way?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulian Ligioso, vice president of finance and administration for Solano Community College, said a merger would entail many additional costs. For example, the districts would have to standardize their curriculums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While on the surface, I think it’s certainly not something you cannot do, there are many obstacles you’d have to address in trying to merge the institutions,” Ligioso said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The districts have not discussed merging, but even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to immediately reduce duplicative positions. California’s Education Code \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618120-california-education-code-sec-88018.html\" target=\"_blank\">prohibits districts from laying off nonacademic employees\u003c/a> for two years following a merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That protection originates from a 1961 bill sponsored by the California School Employees Association, which ensured a year of job security for nonacademic employees after a merger. The union sponsored another bill in 1970 that pushed the protection to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before a merger could be approved, a litany of other financial, legal and political hurdles would stand in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several groups must sign off on the deal, including the community college system’s Board of Governors, a committee of K-12 school officials in every affected county and the merging districts’ boards of trustees – who which would be voting on whether to eliminate their own positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91641\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/berkeley-city-college-student-clay-smith-by-michael-short-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91641\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91641 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Berkeley-City-College-student-Clay-Smith-by-Michael-Short-cal-watch.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley City College student Clay Smith (Michael Short/California Watch)\" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley City College student Clay Smith (Michael Short/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters in every affected county would have to approve the merger at the polls, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The colleges, meanwhile, would have to get approval from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. They would have to show that they could maintain the same quality of instruction and student support. The process entails legal review and a fee of $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new district also would have to sort out multiple collective bargaining agreements, each with its own salary schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill McGinnis, a trustee at the Butte-Glenn Community College District in Oroville, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618122-mcginnis-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">took a deeper look\u003c/a> at these laws and regulations in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very complicated process and a very costly process,” McGinnis said. “There’s no cost savings for at least two years. In order to make it work, you’d definitely need to have changes in the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say districts that currently operate multiple colleges are more efficient than single-college districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch looked at three years of administrator-to-student ratios for each district. While the ratios varied, no clear pattern emerged that would explain why some districts had lots of administrators per student and others had very few. Districts with multiple colleges, for example, were no more likely than single-college districts to have a low administrator-to-student ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community college officials point to this fact when they caution against merging districts. They often cite the state’s largest district, the nine-college, 230,000-student Los Angeles Community College District, as a highly bureaucratic organization they do not want to emulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mergers would be rather complicated legally, and we would have to be convinced that such mergers would bring about savings,” said Jack Scott, former chancellor of the California Community Colleges. “Unfortunately, there’s not evidence that (multicollege districts) operate more efficiently than some of the surrounding districts that are one-college districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small districts consider collaboration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the state’s small districts are in precarious financial straits because budget cuts are making it increasingly difficult to support the administrative costs of running a district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When statewide budget cuts hit, community colleges get lower enrollment targets – meaning fewer classes and student services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But districts can scale down instructional and support services more easily than they can adjust the cost of administrative services such as payroll, accounting, information technology and institutional research, said Yuba Community College District Chancellor Doug Houston. That means courses and educational services end up on the chopping block first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re making the cuts by reducing our core academic functions, and we’re kind of chipping away at the margins of being more efficient with those noncore functions,” Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal and political obstacles involved in merging districts have stopped districts from getting past the most preliminary discussions about consolidating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston stops short of advocating that small districts should merge to save money. He’s concerned that moving a district administration farther away would take something away from those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he has been working with a group of mostly small rural college districts to explore ways to share some of these administrative services, such as payroll services or server farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group includes the Mendocino-Lake, Siskiyou Joint, Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint, Lassen, Feather River, Lake Tahoe, Monterey Peninsula\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> Butte-Glenn and Yuba districts in Northern California, plus the Copper Mountain, Barstow and Palo Verde college districts in the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that for these smaller colleges that they’re already on the precipice, and that another round of cuts will put them in extreme jeopardy,” Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group does not yet have an estimate of the potential savings districts could achieve. At Houston’s former district, the 5,000-student Lassen Community College District in Susanville, he estimated administrative costs made up 21 percent of the budget. He figures at least a quarter of that could be shaved through collaboration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston and Kindred Murillo, president of the Lake Tahoe Community College District, are talking about sharing one or more senior administrators in the future, even though the two district offices are 145 miles apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The districts’ immediate financial woes are only the short-term context for the push toward collaboration, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bigger context is that the paying public, quite legitimately, is skeptical as to how efficient we have been in public services and is demanding greater efficiency,” Houston said. “And I think legitimately so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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