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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In some classrooms, s\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tudents wear heavy jackets and use hand warmers when small space heaters provided by the college haven’t been enough to bring temperatures above even 60 degrees. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always feel very cold. I wear a big coat and other people in the class feel the same way. Our professor brought his own space heater to our class,” said Yoanna Li, whose biology class at the Ocean campus doesn’t have heating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are having a polar opposite experience. Nicole Barens, who teaches English as a Second Language classes at the college’s Mission campus, said her classroom thermostat has been stuck at unusually high temperatures for weeks, causing her and her students to sweat through classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am not kidding when I say that all of us are sweating to the point where I have to bring a towel or bandanna to class. And I’m not the only teacher dealing with that. There are a few of us, and it’s been exhausting,” Barens said. “Not to mention the fact that COVID is an issue and students aren’t masking, and so there’s no air circulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/03/city-college-students-spend-year-without-heat-learning-at-one-icebox-to-another/\">Mission campus had no heating\u003c/a> for much of last winter, Mission Local first reported\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span> But after students and faculty raised the issue last winter, the administration agreed to repair a broken boiler on campus. Now that it’s been repaired, a new issue has emerged where some classrooms can’t turn down the heat, Barens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The heat has impacted her and her students’ ability to get through lessons, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely affects motivation levels. It’s hard enough to focus after a full day of work, let alone when you’re sweating and stuffy,” Barens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s administration held an emergency meeting in March to respond to the frigid temperatures. Since then, broken boilers have been replaced at the Mission campus and John Adams campus, located near the Panhandle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a lack of heat remains a problem at the school’s Ocean campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It affects me a lot. And the weather is getting colder,” said Li. “I bring a big coat, but I can’t concentrate in class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barens has seen that side of the issue too, as a photography student at CCSF at the Ocean campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was going to the lab in a visual arts building, and the photo lab was in the basement, and it was freezing in there. Absolutely freezing. They had some space heaters, but it couldn’t heat a whole room,” Barens said. “After an hour in there, my feet would be frozen. I think that definitely affected people’s desire to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college is also working to replace the HVAC system at its Rosenberg Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s community college is a lifeline for students looking to start their educational journey, advance or change careers, or otherwise enrich their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wong, the board president, has received several complaints about the cold temperatures since last winter and said some students have had to drop classes because of the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started getting tagged on Instagram by students taking pictures of the classroom thermometer. They were emailing me about the heating issues at the visual arts building at the Ocean Campus,” Wong said. “It’s a campus-wide facilities issue, and we really need to make sure we are taking care of these heating issues so we aren’t losing students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, campus facilities officials said that heating in the visual arts building should be restored by Spring 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alberto Vasquez, associate vice chancellor of construction and planning, said at Tuesday’s meeting that the response has faced delays due to supply chain issues and general funding for the projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there are no specific plans to move students to another classroom if the heating issues persist through the winter, Wong said, but campus officials said options are under consideration. However, that will be difficult for classes like photography, which require specific lab equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last March, the Board of Trustees allocated more than $2 million to replace the boilers and increase the college’s facilities and grounds staff by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be a long-term solution rather than a Band-Aid,” Wong said. “I’m going to continue to monitor and ensure our college is prioritizing this. The heat should be on us to get our students warm classrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A candidate running in November’s election for the board governing City College of San Francisco posted controversial views condemning critical race theory, often referred to as CRT, in a since-deleted tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation on Twitter of a prior comment by board trustee candidate Marie Hurabiell is now prompting a Democratic club in the city to reopen discussions on their endorsement of her, the club’s president told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the tweet, which was published in May 2021, Hurabiell wrote, “CRT was a tactic used by Hitler and the KKK.” These were not her words; rather, Hurabiell was amplifying the words of a speaker at a school board meeting in Loudoun County, Va.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-800x1604.jpeg\" alt=\"A screenshot of a tweet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1604\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-800x1604.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-1020x2046.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-160x321.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-766x1536.jpeg 766w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-1021x2048.jpeg 1021w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1.jpeg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of a now-deleted tweet from board trustee candidate Marie Hurabiell published in May 2021. \u003ccite>(Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, Hurabiell added, in her own words, “Gratitude to this strong and passionate parent for fighting this dangerous nonsense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical race theory is an academic school of thought \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1012696188/how-critical-race-theory-went-from-harvard-law-to-fox-news\">teaching how racism is baked into the systems and policies of the United States\u003c/a>. It entered the national spotlight last year as a bogeyman of conservatives looking to lambaste local school boards. Striking critical race theory from school campuses is among a number of efforts by conservatives to reform school boards across the country over the past year, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1055524205/more-republican-leaders-try-to-ban-books-on-race-lgbtq-issues\">banning books promoting racial equity and LGBTQ+ themes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outrage against CRT is usually reserved for screeds on ultraconservative websites like Breitbart, or on President Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social. It’s certainly not an everyday talking point in liberal San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Virginia school board meeting took place amid heated rhetoric against critical race theory from then-gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin. After he won the race, Youngkin\u003ca href=\"https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/education/glenn-youngkin-critical-race-theory-ban-executive-order/291-30a4d6e7-3fcf-4938-8d7f-7f82e5b24d44\"> issued an executive order\u003c/a> to end “inherently divisive concepts,” which he billed as a way to end critical race theory from being taught in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fanning flames against critical race theory was central to Republicans in his race, but in Democratic San Francisco, Hurabiell may have found a sympathetic ear for those views from people wishing to recall several local school board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the deleted tweet, Hurabiell tagged numerous accounts, including an account of the San Francisco Board of Education recall called @recallsfboe that belongs to a group now called the SF Guardians. That group worked to successfully recall school board commissioners Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it was a really stupid thing that I said,” Hurabiell told KQED. “I think it was really stupid that I retweeted it and I’m extremely apologetic for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurabiell said she believes systemic racism is a “real problem” in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my life I have not spent a lot of time digging into CRT, but I’m trying to understand it better now,” she said. “I’m always open to being wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she usually calls things she doesn’t know about “dangerous nonsense,” she responded, “I don’t routinely talk about things that I’m not terribly familiar with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurabiell is an eighth-generation San Franciscan and has been an attorney since the 1990s. She also serves on the Georgetown University Board of Regents. An ardent supporter of the recall campaigns of the three San Francisco Board of Education members and District Attorney Chesa Boudin, she also is a member of the nonprofit Stop Crime SF, the organization Board of Supervisors candidate Joel Engardio sits on the board of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adele Failes-Carpenter, political director for the City College of San Francisco faculty union, AFT Local 2121, said Hurabiell’s views are out of step with the college’s mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need public education to keep our commitment to ending racism at the center of our work,” she said. “Anyone who is participating in open, reactionary attacks on critical examinations of the history of race and racism in this country is not in a position to help us do that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurabiell has been endorsed by at least two local Democratic clubs in her race so far this year: the Eastern Neighborhoods Democratic Club and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uniteddems.org/\">United Democratic Club\u003c/a>. These endorsements can be especially key in political races that don’t have as much funding, like down-ballot college board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached by text,\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfendc.com/\"> Eastern Neighborhoods Democratic Club\u003c/a> President Bruce Agid said he was not aware of Hurabiell’s tweet about critical race theory, and that he would discuss her views with his club’s board. Bobak Esfandiari, president of the United Democratic Club, did not answer texts inquiring about the club’s endorsement of Hurabiell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failes-Carpenter said the clubs should reconsider their endorsements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would ask them to stand by students and by public educators that have committed to fighting racism within our public institutions and within our educational institutions, by not endorsing and supporting candidates who are openly hostile to anti-racist analyses and anti-racist teaching,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The endorsement of Hurabiell by two Democratic clubs may be an odd choice for another reason: For two decades Hurabiell was a Republican. She was appointed to the Presidio Trust Board of Directors, where she served for three years, by former President Donald Trump in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records from the San Francisco Department of Elections show she was a registered Republican in San Francisco from at least 2000, which is as far back as more easily accessible records could reveal. She changed her party preference to Democrat on Aug. 18, 2022 — six days after she filed paperwork to run for the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Democratic Party Chair Honey Mahogany said the organization’s bylaws do not specify how long someone needs to be registered as a Democrat before a Democratic club can endorse them. Furthermore, Democratic clubs are allowed to endorse someone of any party in nonpartisan races, like for City College’s Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurabiell would have had an uphill battle running for office advertising herself as a Republican in San Francisco, where the party is widely disfavored in local elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has no elected Republicans in office. The last Republican elected in San Francisco was the late James Fang, who formerly sat on the BART Board of Directors. He was first elected in 1990 and served until his defeat in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurabiell said she changed her party registration after joining a group called “No Labels,” and finding moderate Democrats who agreed with her on issues, but disliked her being known as a Republican Party member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just wanted to solve problems. We just wanted to work together and effect positive change in our community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Chronicle-recommends-Williams-Temprano-Quick-15617670.php\"> praised Hurabiell during her 2020 run for the college board \u003c/a> — which she lost — endorsing her for “fiscal savvy.” Indeed, in her interview with KQED, she professed a desire to set City College on a fiscally solvent path, and expressed concern that too many classes that are still being offered are under-enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hurabiell said she didn’t know much about CRT, we asked whether she believed in other progressive causes that may be valued at City College, like the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure I fully understand that movement,” she said, repeating her same explanation for having no stance on CRT. While the death of George Floyd left her “disgusted and devastated,” she said, “I want to say yes to that, but again I’m not sure I understand enough about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to Hurabiell’s repeated claims of not understanding both CRT and the Black Lives Matter movement, Jane Kim, state director of the California Working Families Party — who championed and won free City College tuition during her time on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors — bristled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Listen, it is one thing for an individual in our society or to say that they don’t know a lot about critical race theory or Black Lives Matter, but if you are a candidate that is running to represent over 800,000 residents of San Francisco, many of whom are people of color, then I think that it is your job to understand those things,” Kim said. “If you don’t understand the Black community, the Latino community, API community, then you shouldn’t be running for office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Correction: Joel Engardio is a board member of Stop Crime SF, but did not start the group as we originally stated.\u003c/i>\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>A candidate running in November’s election for the board governing City College of San Francisco posted controversial views condemning critical race theory, often referred to as CRT, in a since-deleted tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation on Twitter of a prior comment by board trustee candidate Marie Hurabiell is now prompting a Democratic club in the city to reopen discussions on their endorsement of her, the club’s president told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the tweet, which was published in May 2021, Hurabiell wrote, “CRT was a tactic used by Hitler and the KKK.” These were not her words; rather, Hurabiell was amplifying the words of a speaker at a school board meeting in Loudoun County, Va.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-800x1604.jpeg\" alt=\"A screenshot of a tweet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1604\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-800x1604.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-1020x2046.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-160x321.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-766x1536.jpeg 766w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1-1021x2048.jpeg 1021w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/sfboetweet1.jpeg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of a now-deleted tweet from board trustee candidate Marie Hurabiell published in May 2021. \u003ccite>(Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, Hurabiell added, in her own words, “Gratitude to this strong and passionate parent for fighting this dangerous nonsense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical race theory is an academic school of thought \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1012696188/how-critical-race-theory-went-from-harvard-law-to-fox-news\">teaching how racism is baked into the systems and policies of the United States\u003c/a>. It entered the national spotlight last year as a bogeyman of conservatives looking to lambaste local school boards. Striking critical race theory from school campuses is among a number of efforts by conservatives to reform school boards across the country over the past year, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1055524205/more-republican-leaders-try-to-ban-books-on-race-lgbtq-issues\">banning books promoting racial equity and LGBTQ+ themes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outrage against CRT is usually reserved for screeds on ultraconservative websites like Breitbart, or on President Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social. It’s certainly not an everyday talking point in liberal San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Virginia school board meeting took place amid heated rhetoric against critical race theory from then-gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin. After he won the race, Youngkin\u003ca href=\"https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/education/glenn-youngkin-critical-race-theory-ban-executive-order/291-30a4d6e7-3fcf-4938-8d7f-7f82e5b24d44\"> issued an executive order\u003c/a> to end “inherently divisive concepts,” which he billed as a way to end critical race theory from being taught in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fanning flames against critical race theory was central to Republicans in his race, but in Democratic San Francisco, Hurabiell may have found a sympathetic ear for those views from people wishing to recall several local school board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the deleted tweet, Hurabiell tagged numerous accounts, including an account of the San Francisco Board of Education recall called @recallsfboe that belongs to a group now called the SF Guardians. That group worked to successfully recall school board commissioners Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it was a really stupid thing that I said,” Hurabiell told KQED. “I think it was really stupid that I retweeted it and I’m extremely apologetic for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurabiell said she believes systemic racism is a “real problem” in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my life I have not spent a lot of time digging into CRT, but I’m trying to understand it better now,” she said. “I’m always open to being wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she usually calls things she doesn’t know about “dangerous nonsense,” she responded, “I don’t routinely talk about things that I’m not terribly familiar with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurabiell is an eighth-generation San Franciscan and has been an attorney since the 1990s. She also serves on the Georgetown University Board of Regents. An ardent supporter of the recall campaigns of the three San Francisco Board of Education members and District Attorney Chesa Boudin, she also is a member of the nonprofit Stop Crime SF, the organization Board of Supervisors candidate Joel Engardio sits on the board of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adele Failes-Carpenter, political director for the City College of San Francisco faculty union, AFT Local 2121, said Hurabiell’s views are out of step with the college’s mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need public education to keep our commitment to ending racism at the center of our work,” she said. “Anyone who is participating in open, reactionary attacks on critical examinations of the history of race and racism in this country is not in a position to help us do that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurabiell has been endorsed by at least two local Democratic clubs in her race so far this year: the Eastern Neighborhoods Democratic Club and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uniteddems.org/\">United Democratic Club\u003c/a>. These endorsements can be especially key in political races that don’t have as much funding, like down-ballot college board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached by text,\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfendc.com/\"> Eastern Neighborhoods Democratic Club\u003c/a> President Bruce Agid said he was not aware of Hurabiell’s tweet about critical race theory, and that he would discuss her views with his club’s board. Bobak Esfandiari, president of the United Democratic Club, did not answer texts inquiring about the club’s endorsement of Hurabiell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failes-Carpenter said the clubs should reconsider their endorsements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would ask them to stand by students and by public educators that have committed to fighting racism within our public institutions and within our educational institutions, by not endorsing and supporting candidates who are openly hostile to anti-racist analyses and anti-racist teaching,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The endorsement of Hurabiell by two Democratic clubs may be an odd choice for another reason: For two decades Hurabiell was a Republican. She was appointed to the Presidio Trust Board of Directors, where she served for three years, by former President Donald Trump in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records from the San Francisco Department of Elections show she was a registered Republican in San Francisco from at least 2000, which is as far back as more easily accessible records could reveal. She changed her party preference to Democrat on Aug. 18, 2022 — six days after she filed paperwork to run for the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Democratic Party Chair Honey Mahogany said the organization’s bylaws do not specify how long someone needs to be registered as a Democrat before a Democratic club can endorse them. Furthermore, Democratic clubs are allowed to endorse someone of any party in nonpartisan races, like for City College’s Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurabiell would have had an uphill battle running for office advertising herself as a Republican in San Francisco, where the party is widely disfavored in local elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has no elected Republicans in office. The last Republican elected in San Francisco was the late James Fang, who formerly sat on the BART Board of Directors. He was first elected in 1990 and served until his defeat in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurabiell said she changed her party registration after joining a group called “No Labels,” and finding moderate Democrats who agreed with her on issues, but disliked her being known as a Republican Party member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just wanted to solve problems. We just wanted to work together and effect positive change in our community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Chronicle-recommends-Williams-Temprano-Quick-15617670.php\"> praised Hurabiell during her 2020 run for the college board \u003c/a> — which she lost — endorsing her for “fiscal savvy.” Indeed, in her interview with KQED, she professed a desire to set City College on a fiscally solvent path, and expressed concern that too many classes that are still being offered are under-enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hurabiell said she didn’t know much about CRT, we asked whether she believed in other progressive causes that may be valued at City College, like the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure I fully understand that movement,” she said, repeating her same explanation for having no stance on CRT. 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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. 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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>City College of San Francisco has averted 163 layoffs and hundreds more potential job losses — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a special meeting Monday, CCSF’s board of trustees voted to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872868/ccsf-faculty-may-trade-layoffs-for-across-the-board-salary-cuts\">contract\u003c/a> with its teachers for the 2021-2022 school year that would cut faculty pay across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trustees said they were thankful for teachers’ sacrifice, which will see their pay slashed by as much as 11%. However, the alternative would mean broad cuts to vital classes, administrators had argued, from car mechanic training to English as second language classes used by thousands of new immigrants annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State funding would likely not rescue the college, board of trustees President Shanell Williams said at the meeting. Instead, state leaders want to see the college change who it focuses on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be very candid, we heard very clearly from our federal leaders, our state leaders, that they want to see that structural change at our college,” she said. “They were not really receptive to providing funding in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract’s approval also means fewer changes to class schedules and programs, preserving courses \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872330/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college\">the community rallied for last week to see preserved\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students were particularly fearful to lose Cantonese-language courses, vital to train the local workforce to communicate with monolingual Chinese communities at a time of rising racist violence and COVID-19 concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11872868\" label=\"CCSF Teachers Threatened With Layoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Lauren Chinn told the trustees that taking Cantonese at City College helped her get Cantonese speakers counted in the census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taking Cantonese at City College has been a way for me to reconnect with my roots,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faculty pay cuts were approved by teachers themselves in a vote earlier Monday afternoon by CCSF members of the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121. Out of 732 faculty who voted, 603 said yes to the pay cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Layoff notices were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-community-outraged-over-proposed-cuts-layoffs/\">sent to 163 faculty by college administrators in March\u003c/a> as the school faced a $33 million budget shortfall amid historic declining enrollment. Failing to meet its financial needs may lead to a state takeover of the school, the trustees have warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class cuts at CCSF are forcing a fork-in-the-road moment, the union and San Francisco leaders say: Should the college focus its dwindling dollars on younger two-year transfer students who are bound to universities? Or maintain its historic broader mission of serving older and returning students, workforce training and English as second language courses aimed at newcomer immigrants?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the college’s hand has been guided to the former choice by the state under a funding scheme called the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Student-Centered-Funding-Formula\">Student Centered Funding Formula\u003c/a>” first implemented in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment, as was the case previously, but also calculations including “student success” as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the vote Monday saved jobs, for now, the state funding formula is a structural issue the college still needs to solve, trustee Alan Wong told the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lauren Chinn, CCSF student\"]‘Taking Cantonese at City College has been a way for me to reconnect with my roots.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a one-year deal. And City College will continue to have a structural budget deficit and funding gap,” Wong said. “Immediately after approving this tentative agreement, we must turn our attention to long-term funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state leaders aren’t receptive to funding the vision some locally have for CCSF, San Francisco elected officials are working behind the scenes to find new funding to pay for classes that California government won’t foot the bill for.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SF Supes Support Stepping in for CCSF\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisors Gordon Mar and Hillary Ronen view the binary of serving younger students and the broader workforce as a false choice. They’re seeking city funding to pay for classes they think buttress the city’s economy and its culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar said the funding will likely come from his previous legislation, the Workforce Education and Recovery Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful my colleagues and Mayor [London] Breed will support a significant expansion of WERF as an investment in City College and economic opportunity for residents and communities impacted by the pandemic,” Mar told KQED in a statement. “I continue to discuss the best way to accomplish this with City College leadership and other City officials and hope to bring a proposal forward in the coming weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office said they are in conversations with the college’s administration to “better understand the long-term health and needs” of City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen framed her support for City College as sorely needed for San Francisco’s economic recovery from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the city prepares for a long road to recovery ahead, our city government, our local businesses, and our residents alike will rely on City College’s workforce training and professional development programs more than ever before,” she said in a statement. “It is in the City’s own best interest to preserve these programs in order to fill our most urgent workforce needs and provide thousands of marginally employed San Franciscans with reliable pathways to job opportunities and financial stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There seems to be broad support at the Board of Supervisors to aid City College. Supervisors Rafael Mandelman, Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston, Connie Chan and Matt Haney all told KQED they support funding CCSF to maintain classes to some degree, though all mentioned a need to suss out either particular funding sources, or to what degree they’d fund CCSF classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get down to brass tacks. What do we need City College to do that the state doesn’t? 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A property transfer tax earmarked for City College may need to be better put to use to maintain classes as well, he said. “City College has not received most of that money,” Haney said. “It just goes into the city general fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Peskin said he feels the state needs to change its tune on its priorities for City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11872330\" label=\"Students Worry for Cantonese Classes\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m willing to spend some city money, but the state needs to step up to the plate, too,” he said, specifically calling for San Francisco Assemblymembers Phil Ting and David Chiu, as well as state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Classes and jobs are on the chopping block at City College of San Francisco, as nearly 200 faculty and staff members may be laid off pending an upcoming vote of the college's Board of Trustees slated for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school, which faces a $33 million budget shortfall for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-community-outraged-over-proposed-cuts-layoffs/\">sent preliminary layoff notices to 163 faculty members and 34 administrators\u003c/a> in early March. Monday's vote by the trustees could begin the process of sending finalized layoff notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College administrators \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-seeks-city-funding-as-cuts-state-takeover-loom/\">have said the cuts are necessary to stave off a state takeover\u003c/a> should City College not meet its fiscal responsibilities. In a time of financial uncertainty, they've argued publicly, the college must focus its mission on who it can best serve. According to the American Federation of Teachers 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty, the cuts could also affect hundreds of additional part-time workers, which would bring total layoffs to between 500 and 600 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes in nearly every subject the school teaches may be affected, from auto repair to astronomy, LGBT studies, photography, aircraft maintenance, health education and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Julia Quon, health worker and CCSF student\"]'When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped. Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union framed the cuts as a winnowing of the school's mission to a focus only on university transfer students instead of serving a broader community of older and returning students, or people training for new careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"City College is the economic and jobs engine that students of color, low-income, and immigrants need to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic,\" the union wrote in an April 29 \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft2121.org/2021/04/what-will-your-ccsf-legacy-be-an-open-letter-to-the-ccsf-trustees/\">open letter\u003c/a> to CCSF trustees. \"Yet the District plans to rob over 30,000 students every semester of the educational opportunities they need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emergency bargaining session between the union and CCSF is scheduled for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \"Fight Back for CCSF\" rally Thursday evening in San Francisco, which was organized as an AAPI and Black solidarity action by the student-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ccsfcollective/\">CCSF Collective\u003c/a>, speakers demanded CCSF trustees cancel planned layoffs. They also turned the spotlight on the harm that class cuts may have on the city's immigrant communities in a time of rising anti-Asian hate, from Cantonese courses that train workers who help the city's Chinese community to some English as a Second Language classes considered crucial for new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Quon, who organized a Save Cantonese at CCSF group with her fellow classmates, speaks at a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped,\" said Julia Quon, a doula and birth worker who was raised in the Sunset District, at Thursday's rally. \"These Cantonese classes were not only a way for me to connect with my heritage, but also to connect with the families that I work with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quon, who started a \"Save Cantonese at CCSF\" group with a group of her classmates, told KQED earlier this week that it shocked her to learn City College may no longer offer Cantonese — especially in light of ongoing attacks against Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco,\" she said. \"If people are able to communicate with these victims and survivors in their own language, it helps give people a voice. Imagine being attacked, and going to the authorities, and every single person there has no idea what you're saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncle Damien Posey, founder of Us 4 Us Bay Area, speaks during a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uncle Damien Posey, community organizer and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.us4usbayarea.org/\">Us 4 Us Bay Area\u003c/a>, discussed his own personal history as someone who was formerly incarcerated, and described CCSF as being there for him when he needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I came home from doing 10 years, you know who was there for me? City College,\" Posey said at Thursday's rally. \"City College was there for me ... Access to education is absolutely the last thing that should be cut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class cuts at CCSF are designed to bring the college in line with a state funding scheme called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Student-Centered-Funding-Formula\">Student-Centered Funding Formula\u003c/a>\" first implemented in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment, as was the case previously, but also calculations including \"student success\" as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state sees the school as a school that should not have more than 180 full-time faculty, but the school has 555 full-time faculty,\" Dr. Rajen Vurdien, interim chancellor of CCSF, said in a Zoom town hall meeting in March, which AFT 2121 tweeted in a video. \"I have had multiple conversations with the state chancellor, with the department of the treasury, they've all said exactly the same thing: City College will learn to live within its means.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left out in that restructuring, opponents argue, are those who explore City College's vast offering of courses, trying to figure out their future careers by sampling a bit of this, and a bit of that, college faculty argue. Noncredit courses that focus on workforce training, which the state's community college system does not broadly offer to the same degree as City College, also face cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"students hold rally signs\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says, 'Fight for City College' during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These changes are similar to ones that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/upshot/city-college-of-san-francisco-survives.html\">accreditors wanted CCSF to make when they threatened the school with closure in 2012\u003c/a>, a threat that very nearly toppled the institution. The City Attorney's Office successfully won against those accreditors in court in 2014, ensuring the college's survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, however, circumstances may have led the college to commit those same cuts itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has also faced declining enrollment, said Rosie Zepeda, a City College spokesperson. Its population peaked around 2009 at 100,000 students, but a subsequent threat to the college's accreditation, demographic changes in San Francisco itself and, finally, the pandemic, led to a decline in enrollment by tens of thousands, Zepeda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the shrinking groups is the number of San Franciscans who said, in the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent American Community Survey, that they speak English \"less than very well,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/sites/default/files/2020/document/Multi-Year-Budget-and-Enrollment-Plan-Draft-2020-10-25-ADA.pdf\">according to a report by the college in November last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been operating with an overblown schedule which eventually led to over-expenditures in faculty salaries,\" Zepeda said. \"And so given the number of students that we have now, which has been going down so drastically, so greatly impacted by the pandemic ... We have to operate within that headcount.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has tried the \"build it and they will come\" approach, Zepeda said, after San Francisco began offering Free City College. They offered robust classes, but students just weren't taking them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That didn't come to fruition at all,\" she said. And now the college may shrink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed layoffs could reduce the number of ethnic studies and ESL classes being offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a 'Fight for City College' sign during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Faculty like Dr. Lily Ann Villaraza, who is among those who received layoff notices in March, are worried about the long-term impact on certain departments. She chairs the Philippine Studies Department, whose classes, she says, offer more than academic support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the conversations that we have students who are struggling with their identities, who are trying to find their space,” she said during a May 3 news conference organized by AFT 2121. “I get the privilege of hearing students tell me, you know what, I feel better about who I am and where I’m going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was borne out at Thursday's rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a Filipino American student at CCSF, the Philippine Studies department has given me an opportunity to rediscover and reconnect with my Filipino roots... And has given me more reason and purpose to serve my community,\" said Joemar Olit, CCSF student and member of Anakbayan SF, a student organization for democracy in the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a Filipino who was born in America, I did not know much about my Filipino background. Taking the classes offered by the Philippine Studies department has given me a better understanding of who I am. As a Filipino. As a Filipino American.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other concerns is the future of ESL classes, which typically serve as a lifeline for many folks who are starting a new life in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ESL program is critical for immigrants who need our support acquiring language skills,” said Fanny Law, an ESL instructor who also received a layoff notice in March, during the May 3 news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Rivera benefited from that program. An immigrant from El Salvador, she said taking English courses at City College’s Mission campus launched her path in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the departments that helped me a lot — ESL, Transitional Studies and Latino Services — they were key to my success,” she said during the May 3 news conference. “ESL classes are important because immigrants, we need to speak the language of the city to be able to give back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said City College staff guided her as she worked to earn her high school degree and complete the requirements to transfer to a four-year institution. She’s now studying math at UC Berkeley to become a math teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city needs to fund these classes,” Rivera said, urging city officials and City College trustees against making the proposed cuts. “If you educate parents and the community, the future generations are gonna be educated, and that’s where the future of the city is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Classes and jobs are on the chopping block at City College of San Francisco, as nearly 200 faculty and staff members may be laid off pending an upcoming vote of the college's Board of Trustees slated for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school, which faces a $33 million budget shortfall for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-community-outraged-over-proposed-cuts-layoffs/\">sent preliminary layoff notices to 163 faculty members and 34 administrators\u003c/a> in early March. Monday's vote by the trustees could begin the process of sending finalized layoff notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College administrators \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-seeks-city-funding-as-cuts-state-takeover-loom/\">have said the cuts are necessary to stave off a state takeover\u003c/a> should City College not meet its fiscal responsibilities. In a time of financial uncertainty, they've argued publicly, the college must focus its mission on who it can best serve. According to the American Federation of Teachers 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty, the cuts could also affect hundreds of additional part-time workers, which would bring total layoffs to between 500 and 600 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes in nearly every subject the school teaches may be affected, from auto repair to astronomy, LGBT studies, photography, aircraft maintenance, health education and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union framed the cuts as a winnowing of the school's mission to a focus only on university transfer students instead of serving a broader community of older and returning students, or people training for new careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"City College is the economic and jobs engine that students of color, low-income, and immigrants need to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic,\" the union wrote in an April 29 \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft2121.org/2021/04/what-will-your-ccsf-legacy-be-an-open-letter-to-the-ccsf-trustees/\">open letter\u003c/a> to CCSF trustees. \"Yet the District plans to rob over 30,000 students every semester of the educational opportunities they need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emergency bargaining session between the union and CCSF is scheduled for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \"Fight Back for CCSF\" rally Thursday evening in San Francisco, which was organized as an AAPI and Black solidarity action by the student-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ccsfcollective/\">CCSF Collective\u003c/a>, speakers demanded CCSF trustees cancel planned layoffs. They also turned the spotlight on the harm that class cuts may have on the city's immigrant communities in a time of rising anti-Asian hate, from Cantonese courses that train workers who help the city's Chinese community to some English as a Second Language classes considered crucial for new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Quon, who organized a Save Cantonese at CCSF group with her fellow classmates, speaks at a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped,\" said Julia Quon, a doula and birth worker who was raised in the Sunset District, at Thursday's rally. \"These Cantonese classes were not only a way for me to connect with my heritage, but also to connect with the families that I work with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quon, who started a \"Save Cantonese at CCSF\" group with a group of her classmates, told KQED earlier this week that it shocked her to learn City College may no longer offer Cantonese — especially in light of ongoing attacks against Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco,\" she said. \"If people are able to communicate with these victims and survivors in their own language, it helps give people a voice. Imagine being attacked, and going to the authorities, and every single person there has no idea what you're saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncle Damien Posey, founder of Us 4 Us Bay Area, speaks during a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uncle Damien Posey, community organizer and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.us4usbayarea.org/\">Us 4 Us Bay Area\u003c/a>, discussed his own personal history as someone who was formerly incarcerated, and described CCSF as being there for him when he needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I came home from doing 10 years, you know who was there for me? City College,\" Posey said at Thursday's rally. \"City College was there for me ... Access to education is absolutely the last thing that should be cut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class cuts at CCSF are designed to bring the college in line with a state funding scheme called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Student-Centered-Funding-Formula\">Student-Centered Funding Formula\u003c/a>\" first implemented in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment, as was the case previously, but also calculations including \"student success\" as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state sees the school as a school that should not have more than 180 full-time faculty, but the school has 555 full-time faculty,\" Dr. Rajen Vurdien, interim chancellor of CCSF, said in a Zoom town hall meeting in March, which AFT 2121 tweeted in a video. \"I have had multiple conversations with the state chancellor, with the department of the treasury, they've all said exactly the same thing: City College will learn to live within its means.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left out in that restructuring, opponents argue, are those who explore City College's vast offering of courses, trying to figure out their future careers by sampling a bit of this, and a bit of that, college faculty argue. Noncredit courses that focus on workforce training, which the state's community college system does not broadly offer to the same degree as City College, also face cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"students hold rally signs\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says, 'Fight for City College' during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These changes are similar to ones that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/upshot/city-college-of-san-francisco-survives.html\">accreditors wanted CCSF to make when they threatened the school with closure in 2012\u003c/a>, a threat that very nearly toppled the institution. The City Attorney's Office successfully won against those accreditors in court in 2014, ensuring the college's survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, however, circumstances may have led the college to commit those same cuts itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has also faced declining enrollment, said Rosie Zepeda, a City College spokesperson. Its population peaked around 2009 at 100,000 students, but a subsequent threat to the college's accreditation, demographic changes in San Francisco itself and, finally, the pandemic, led to a decline in enrollment by tens of thousands, Zepeda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They offered robust classes, but students just weren't taking them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That didn't come to fruition at all,\" she said. 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Out of that money, $15 million was earmarked for down payment assistance loans for first-time home buyers; the rest was for the renovation and construction of very-low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years, the city never really considered affordable housing to be infrastructure and as a result never regularly programmed it into the capital planning cycle,” Yeung said. “Hopefully by having a housing bond every five years or so, we are going to be regularly addressing the affordability needs, as opposed to waiting 20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition A has support from Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors as well as some state politicians. Salesforce and the Facebook-affiliated Chan Zuckerberg Initiative have helped financed the bond campaign. There’s no major opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition A needs two-thirds to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proposition E\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proposition E, meanwhile, needs a simple majority to pass. And if you’re having trouble keeping the two straight, remember that the “E” stands for educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ‘yes’ vote on Proposition E would change the city’s planning code to allow housing projects, specifically for educators, to be built on publicly-owned land. It would also relax some zoning requirements and expedite the city’s approval process for those projects. Park land is not included, and lots must be 10,000 square feet or bigger to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators working for San Francisco Unified School District — including teachers, staff, teaching assistants and aides — as well as City College educators would be eligible for the new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The onus ultimately falls on San Francisco Unified and City College to provide funding for the construction of new educator housing. If Proposition A passes, the city would chip in $20 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11768639,news_11740509 label='Hanging on to Teachers']Susan Solomon, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said teachers here face unprecedented affordability challenges that make it hard to stay in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many of them, especially newer teachers, they are also paying off their student loans,” she said. “So, what it means for them is that they are living with many roommates, or tiny apartments or commuting from very far away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The profession has a national attrition rate of about 8 percent annually, \u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/Teacher_Turnover_REPORT.pdf\">according to 2017 study by the Learning Policy Institute\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Unified has a 10 percent attrition rate, \u003ca href=\"https://archive.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/RFQ%20Educator%20Housing%20Development%20Final%203.1.2019.pdf\">according to a school district memo\u003c/a> from April that sought pitches from developers for potential housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school district has identified a few lots that would be eligible for Proposition E development if it passes: One in the Inner Sunset, another in Laurel Heights and one in the Bayview neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has already started working with the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development on \u003ca href=\"https://sfmohcd.org/francis-scott-key-annex\">a housing project planned for the Francis Scott Key Annex\u003c/a> in the Outer Sunset. It is expected to have more than 100 new one-to-three bedroom apartments for teachers and classroom aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the potential impacts could reach further because Proposition E would expedite and relax zoning rules for housing built on publicly-owned land if it is 100-percent affordable and meets the 10,000-square foot requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could be a big deal for building anywhere in the city, said Peter Cohen, co-director of the Council of Community Housing Organizations, which is a big supporter of both ballot measures. Of course, the city would have to first acquire the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say that Prop. A and E are complementary measures,” Cohen said. “They both address affordable housing developers’ two biggest obstacles: the funding and the land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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So for me to be able to rectify what was the wrong thing to do means a lot to me personally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to approve the name change in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of the latest steps taken by the city to rename streets and other public spaces with historically racist origins. In September, officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840748/early-days-statue-in-sf-deemed-racist-will-be-removed-following-re-vote\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">removed the “Early Days” statue\u003c/a> from the Civic Center due to its disparaging depiction of Native Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chancellor of City College of San Francisco Mark Rocha said the renaming of the street “… is not so much about the past, but about the future. About the community empowering itself to cast a beacon to the future about who we are of the San Francisco of today, which is a great city of immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11710970\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of the five names shortlisted for the change, artist Frida Kahlo received the highest number of votes. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The street now bears the name of renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who lived in San Francisco in the early 1930s with her husband, muralist Diego Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a powerful, queer woman of color at a time in Mexico where there weren’t really big female names in the art scene,” said Associated Student Council Vice President Angelica Campos, of Kahlo. “It’s a really powerful statement at this time … where women are under attack in many ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710966\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11710966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associated Student Council Vice President Angelica Campos (left) and Board of Trustees member Shanell Williams (right) celebrate the name change. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Foundation, which had a visual arts award named after James D. 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So for me to be able to rectify what was the wrong thing to do means a lot to me personally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to approve the name change in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of the latest steps taken by the city to rename streets and other public spaces with historically racist origins. In September, officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840748/early-days-statue-in-sf-deemed-racist-will-be-removed-following-re-vote\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">removed the “Early Days” statue\u003c/a> from the Civic Center due to its disparaging depiction of Native Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chancellor of City College of San Francisco Mark Rocha said the renaming of the street “… is not so much about the past, but about the future. About the community empowering itself to cast a beacon to the future about who we are of the San Francisco of today, which is a great city of immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11710970\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34380_IMG_0186-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of the five names shortlisted for the change, artist Frida Kahlo received the highest number of votes. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The street now bears the name of renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who lived in San Francisco in the early 1930s with her husband, muralist Diego Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a powerful, queer woman of color at a time in Mexico where there weren’t really big female names in the art scene,” said Associated Student Council Vice President Angelica Campos, of Kahlo. “It’s a really powerful statement at this time … where women are under attack in many ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710966\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11710966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34377_IMG_0172-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associated Student Council Vice President Angelica Campos (left) and Board of Trustees member Shanell Williams (right) celebrate the name change. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Foundation, which had a visual arts award named after James D. 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"content": "\u003cp>I first learned about Harvey Milk 10 years ago when I saw the movie \"Milk,\" starring Sean Penn. I was 14 at the time and just starting to come to terms with being queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't remember much about the movie itself, which tells the story of the San Francisco supervisor who became the first openly gay elected official in California before being gunned down along with the mayor in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I do remember is being captivated by seeing a gay person as the subject of a Hollywood movie, and making sure that I didn't seem \u003cem>too\u003c/em> captivated — people might start to ask uncomfortable questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF05_CB81c0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, I've come out and moved to the Bay Area. And while I have tried to learn more about the LGBTQ history in which Harvey Milk was such a central figure, that history can still feel very distant and removed from my day-to-day life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as we prepared to mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone by former Supervisor Dan White, I started to wonder how other young queer people think about Milk. Is he more or less a part of their lives than he is mine?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sat in on Breana Bahar Hansen's Introduction to LGBT Studies class at City College of San Francisco, which teaches students about Harvey Milk. I figured the students might — like me — not be that knowledgeable about Milk, but I was shocked when several of Bahar Hansen's students had never even heard of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This class is really involved in LGBT issues,\" Bahar Hansen said. \"A lot of them are activists. Many of them are already doing work in the communities and are just coming here because they wanted a space to talk about LGBT issues in academia. And so the fact that so few knew [about Milk], and the ones that knew [about him] really only knew him from the lens of the 2008 film, that really surprised me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 Years After Assassinations, Assessing the Legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11708059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down in City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White. Take a look back at a San Francisco that was at a crossroads and the day that changed the city forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some students were more familiar with Milk's story. Miranda LaBounty said she grew up \"with Harvey Milk mentioned in the same sentence as Martin Luther King.\" But even she was hazy on the specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I always assumed Milk was [killed] like 50 or 60 years ago,\" she said during in-class discussion. \"That it was only 40 years ago he was assassinated? Our parents were walking around during that time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So instead of the quick refresher and in-depth discussion Bahar Hansen was planning, the approach pivoted to introducing the students to Milk and his story: Born and raised in New York, Milk served in the U.S. Navy before moving to San Francisco in the 1970s and becoming an outspoken gay activist. He ran a camera store on Castro Street before he became the first openly gay elected official in California, when he won a spot on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a year into his first term, Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed in City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White. For the double murder, White served only five years in prison, a fact that shocked and disgusted the students in Bahar Hansen's class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Harvey Milk somehow killed Dan White and Moscone, he would get life in prison,\" LaBounty said, \"but because it was a white cis[gender] straight man doing it ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it were a black guy or a trans person [who committed the murder],\" added Mikaela Kendrick, another student, \"that person would be institutionalized or still in jail to this day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the conversations in the class touched on these ideas of race and gender identity privilege, not just for Dan White but for Milk, too. The idea of intersectionality — the way a person’s sexual orientation combines with their race, gender, socioeconomic status and other identities — is something that young queer people talk about a lot, and it impacts how they view someone like Milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do connect with him in some sense because he is a hero, and I will never sit there and say that he's not a hero because he literally died for us,\" said student Le Shawn Purcell. \"At the same time, he comes from a different background, and I don't think he encapsulated everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purcell said he could connect with Milk because both of them are cisgender males. But for Purcell, who’s black, that’s where the similarities end. He said being a white cisgender male allowed Milk to be the outspoken advocate and eventual hero he became, options that weren't available to transgender activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even while they looked critically at how his privileges allowed Milk to do what he did, the students still recognized the kind of impact Milk had.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708263/remembering-george-moscone-the-peoples-mayor-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Remembering George Moscone, 'The People's Mayor' of San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708263/remembering-george-moscone-the-peoples-mayor-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10467212\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/George-R.-Moscone-photo-courtesy-Moscone-Family-date-unknown-Credit-University-of-the-Pacific-4-800x639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"639\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often overshadowed by Harvey Milk in death, George Moscone left behind a lasting progressive legacy as a state legislator and mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"If it wasn't for him, this class wouldn't have been able to even be in college. That's a fact,\" said Michael Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk also opened the door to a generation of LGBT elected officials in San Francisco who felt like they could be political players without hiding who they were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaBounty noted that voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674589/leno-concession-expected-london-breed-on-track-to-be-next-s-f-mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">almost elected\u003c/a> San Francisco’s first openly gay mayor this year, former supervisor and state Sen. Mark Leno. He ended up coming in second, ahead of Korean-American Jane Kim and behind London Breed, the city’s first African-American female mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that our election was between two women of color and a gay man, I don’t know, that made me kind of happy,\" LaBounty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After class, I asked Bahar Hansen why students — some of whom had never heard of Milk before — still seemed to feel a connection with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bahar-Hansen said even though the LGBTQ community has made significant gains in the last 40 years, many of the students still don't feel safe because of their queer identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even here in San Francisco, there's been just some very heart-wrenching stories of not being accepted by families,\" Bahar Hansen said. \"Really, the issues that Harvey Milk was talking about in the '70s still so apply to their lives today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because those issues of oppression are still present for these young people, Harvey Milk and his legacy still matter to them, even if they only just learned about him.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And so the fact that so few knew [about Milk], and the ones that knew [about him] really only knew him from the lens of the 2008 film, that really surprised me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40 Years After Assassinations, Assessing the Legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706248/40-years-after-assassinations-assessing-the-legacies-of-harvey-milk-and-george-moscone\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11708059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34087_GettyImages-108007553-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down in City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White. Take a look back at a San Francisco that was at a crossroads and the day that changed the city forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some students were more familiar with Milk's story. Miranda LaBounty said she grew up \"with Harvey Milk mentioned in the same sentence as Martin Luther King.\" But even she was hazy on the specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I always assumed Milk was [killed] like 50 or 60 years ago,\" she said during in-class discussion. \"That it was only 40 years ago he was assassinated? Our parents were walking around during that time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So instead of the quick refresher and in-depth discussion Bahar Hansen was planning, the approach pivoted to introducing the students to Milk and his story: Born and raised in New York, Milk served in the U.S. Navy before moving to San Francisco in the 1970s and becoming an outspoken gay activist. He ran a camera store on Castro Street before he became the first openly gay elected official in California, when he won a spot on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a year into his first term, Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed in City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White. For the double murder, White served only five years in prison, a fact that shocked and disgusted the students in Bahar Hansen's class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If Harvey Milk somehow killed Dan White and Moscone, he would get life in prison,\" LaBounty said, \"but because it was a white cis[gender] straight man doing it ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it were a black guy or a trans person [who committed the murder],\" added Mikaela Kendrick, another student, \"that person would be institutionalized or still in jail to this day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the conversations in the class touched on these ideas of race and gender identity privilege, not just for Dan White but for Milk, too. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is rolling out an ambitious program that’s expected to allow thousands of students living in the city to attend \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> for free beginning this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee called it a “bold\" plan at Monday’s press conference. Under the agreement, the city would put up $5.4 million annually to cover the tuition for students at $46 per credit. California residents living in San Francisco for at least one year would be covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $3 million of that funding would also help with certain expenses, such as textbooks and transportation, for low-income students whose fees are already waived by the state. That pencils out to $250 a semester for this group of full-time students and $100 for those attending part time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money to pay for the new program will come from the voter-approved Proposition W, which imposes a transfer tax on properties selling for more than $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfbos.org/supervisor-kim-district-6\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim\u003c/a> spearheaded that measure as a way to fund the free tuition plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be the first city in the nation to make community college free again for all our residents,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight for free tuition follows an even longer battle for the school. For several years CCSF's accreditation has been under threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's been a rough five years,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/en/about-city-college/board-of-trustees.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thea Selby, president of City College's Board of Trustees\u003c/a>. “People have been through the wringer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A commission had been accusing the college of poor fiscal management and governance issues, and was threatening to pull the plug on the school. That changed in January when the commission reaffirmed CCSF’s accreditation for the next seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the uncertainty over the past few years led enrollment to plummet by a third. School officials are hoping this free tuition plan will help lure students back to City College. Interim \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/en/about-city-college/administration/chancellors-office.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chancellor Susan Lamb notes\u003c/a> there are still a lot of empty seats at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want students to fill those seats,\" she said. “Come back and give us a try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lamb says this free tuition plan could give a badly needed boost to enrollment and more state funding. It could also provide at least one path back to stable higher education at one of the largest community colleges in the country.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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