Part-time teaching benefits City College and instructors
Hiring “Freeway Flyers,” part time, untenured teachers who teach at many campuses during a single semester, is becoming a widely used cost-saving measure at City College.
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Foundation strives to fund City College
In this time of drastic and painful budget cuts to the California community college system, it’s hard to see any sort of optimism for City College and public education.
Modesto college cuts journalism
Modesto Junior College administration’s drastic cuts to several popular programs, including the elimination of the entire mass communications department, are at best driven by hopeless ignorance and at worst designed to silence student voices at the school.
HARTS program extends help to homeless students
At the beginning of every month Chris Shaeffer, director of the Homeless At Risk Transitional Students Program, and lab aid Tina Esquer hand out Muni fast passes at a reduced cost of $20 to students who are homeless, living in transitional homes and on parole.
The stakes have risen: When hopes for tax extensions in a June special election died, the projected deficit for California community colleges doubled
Students at City College and community colleges across California fear increased financial pressure after attempts by Gov. Jerry Brown to implement tax extensions in a special election were blocked by Republican members of the state legislature.
California’s broken juvenile justice system: Proposal to cut state’s system brings up ghosts of youth torture
Gov. Jerry Brown’s January proposal to eliminate the Division of Juvenile Justice was one way of grappling with the state’s more than $25 billion budget shortfall, hoping counties could gradually absorb all youth prisoners leaving the state’s system.
Mayoral hopefuls discuss City College budget at Chinatown gathering
Public education was a major topic of discussion among seven San Francisco mayoral candidates at a March 21 Chinatown meet-and-greet, with Board of Supervisors President David Chiu calling for a stronger relationship between San Francisco and City College.