Our Virtual City Hall Hearing on Saving CCSF is tomorrow, Friday 4/9 at 10am.
After 600 participants came out to Defend CCSF on March 12th, Supervisor Ronen called this hearing to explore the impacts of the proposed cuts on our students and our community, and also investigate possible solutions.
Deliberate and chronic underfunding is hitting our City College hard. Anticipating challenges around state funding exacerbated by the global pandemic, City College’s Administration and elected leaders have adopted a plan to cut the college more than 50% by laying off hundreds of workers and closing classes to tens of thousands of students. This is unprecedented and will undermine City College of San Francisco’s essential mission: to provide an accessible and quality education to all San Franciscans, especially those with the greatest need.
Now is not the time to make drastic cuts to the college when there is so much emergency relief money coming in to the City, the State, and the College that could be tapped to support the college during this time of crisis. Beyond that, we need long-term solutions to fully fund our CCSF. San Francisco students need access to the courses and services our part-time and full-time faculty provide, yet years of chronic underfunding and disinvestment leave City College vulnerable.
What you need to know to participate tomorrow:
- We will be streaming the hearing live on our Facebook page (https://fb.me/e/2jAP3Ew3A): we encourage you to watch and respond to the hearing with your fellow CCSF allies there. The hearing will also be streamed online (www.sfgovtv.org) and on TV (channels 26, 78, or 99).
- The agenda for meeting is here.
- AFT 2121, CCSF Trustees, Student Leaders, and Supervisor Ronen will all be giving presentations, Supervisors will be asking questions and making comments on the record, and you all will have a chance to call in and offer your own comments (see instructions for that here).
- General talking points for the campaign
- We also again encourage you to join AFT members, students, and allies on Facebook so we can respond to the event together.
City and State leaders must take action now to protect our College in the immediate and long term— the future of our students and our City depend on it.
PS. If you haven’t yet, RSVP now for a CCSF ESL Press Conference next Thursday, April 15, at 10am. The event is co-sponsored by SF Supervisor Gordon Mar, and will be shining a light on the value of CCSF ESL and on our college as a whole. RSVP here: http://bit.ly/AFTApril15ESL
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