CCSF needs your help: Call on Mayor Breed and SF Supes to establish the Workforce Education Recovery Fund for CCSF

As the COVID-19 outbreak drives us further into a public health and economic crisis, CCSF faculty, students, and staff continue working to provide what is needed to serve San Francisco during this difficult time. The scarcity brought on by COVID-19 means that now, more than ever, we will need to fight to ensure that our City College has adequate funding to help with the economic recovery of San Francisco and to continue to serve the marginalized communities in our City.

Our ability to maintain our programs, including the vital training our City’s residents need to get back to work in the wake of COVID-19, is in serious jeopardy. Along with chronic underfunding and the current pandemic, re-structuring at the college catalyzed by enrollment loss during the accreditation crisis, the new State “Student Centered Funding Formula” has caused the loss of over 600 City College classes since 2017. Without more funding, CCSF will lose at least 1,000 more classes in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 alone. Programs affected include whole workforce training programs and departments, social justice and equity programs and vital student support services.

AFT 2121, in collaboration with Supervisor Gordon Mar, the CCSF Chancellor, Board of Trustees, elected Student Leaders, and community allies, have introduced legislation at City Hall to establish the Workforce Education & Recovery Fund (WERF). If established, the WERF would provide vital funding for CCSF to continue the essential job training it provides for San Francisco and the Bay Area, for social justice and equity classes, and to expand wraparound services for enrollment, counseling, academic support, and job placement for low income students and students of color.

But, in order to make WERF real we need the support of San Francisco Supervisors and Mayor Breed! Now is the time to push. Please sign and share this petition.

Call on Mayor Breed and the SF Board of Supervisors to establish the Workforce Education Recovery Fund to protect essential services provided at City College.

Sign the petition.

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