(5/3, 12pm) Demand Trustees commit to No Layoffs! No Cuts! New Revenue!

​Dear CCSF Community,

With a final vote taking place as early as next week, CCSF Trustees seem prepared to neglect their obligation to defend public education by closing classroom doors to at least 20,566 of the students they were elected to serve.

Despite budget surpluses through fiscal year 2023​ and anticipated surpluses for the next 5 years, CCSF Trustees unanimously took a position at an initial vote in February to cut hundreds of fully enrolled classes and layoff 218 full- and part-time faculty, including 58 tenured/tenure-track faculty. If they choose to affirm the downsizing plan at their final vote at the beginning of May this will perpetuate CCSF’s era of cuts, decline, & crisis, and harm the thousands of black, brown, working-class, disabled, and immigrant residents whom CCSF serves.​

Instead, Trustees should recommit to working with a historic coalition of CCSF labor, student, & community groups planning to bring a revenue measure to San Francisco voters in November to address the long-term problem of the State’s underfunding, improve the college’s fiscal stability and ensure CCSF meets the educational demands of the City. CCSF is the largest provider of workforce & skills training and pivotal in social and economic prosperity for its majority student of color population. Growth of City College is the path forward. ​See more on the CCSF Revenue Unity Coalition’s recent meetings with Mayor Breed office here.​

That’s why CCSF students, faculty, and community members are holding a Press Conference (RSVP now) to Demand Trustees commit to No Layoffs! No Cuts! New Revenue! on Tuesday 5/3 at 12pm in front of Conlan Hall, Ocean Campus. RSVP now  & share this invite with students, colleagues, and community members.

In Solidarity,

AFT 2121

P.S. The SF Democratic Party has spoken, leaders of SEIU 1021 & the SF Building Trades have spoken, CCSF’s students have spoken, and you, our beloved CCSF community have spoken. But, now in the crucial final weeks of this campaign, you need to keep speaking up for CCSF.  RSVP for the Press conference now.