City College of San Francisco leaders are hoping a November ballot measure will help the college restore hundreds of classes that have been lost to budget cuts.
As a young person new to San Francisco and unable to finish a four-year degree, Adele Failes-Carpenter found City College of San Francisco to be her saving grace. While enrolled in City College, Failes-Carpenter completed a number of vocational certificates in health and sexual health education and went on to become a tenant advocate in the Tenderloin.
The ballot measure — spearheaded by the Revenue Unity Coalition, which consists of labor leaders from SEIU 1021, the San Francisco Building Trades, Stationary Engineers and AFT 2121 — has garnered about 20,000 signatures, more than double the 8,979 needed to appear on the November ballot. Classes have been cut for a number of reasons, one of which is declining enrollment and, by extension, less state funding. City College’s sharp decline began when it faced a loss of accreditation in 2012, losing about 16,000 students in the following two years. Though enrollment leveled out at around 60,000 from 2014 to 2019, it dropped by nearly 10,000 again when “aggressive cuts” to classes began in 2019, Failes-Carpenter said.
With the property tax measure, the Revenue Unity Coalition aims to offer the pre-pandemic level of approximately 7,700 class sections and associated services such as registration support, academic counseling and job placement, according to Bravewoman. “Any new tax should be paid by those with the most means to pay it. Under this proposal, the tax burden on San Francisco’s super wealthy is negligible,” CCSF HEAT said in a statement.
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