City College of San Francisco (CCSF) fights back against the corporate raiders and enemies of education
Recently, students, faculty and community supporters rallied to save the City College of San Francisco (CCSF), once known as a “junior college” or “community college” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ohmyNueU94&feature=youtu.be). However, the names ‘junior college and community college” no longer find resonance in the snaky plans of the privatizers who are threatening the CCSF with corporatization and extinction.
The CCSF has 1,600 faculty that serve over 85,000 students. For years it was thought to be a progressive stepping stone for students of color, disabled students and working class students to a humane and intellectual education. This has now all changed.
For while the attention of much of the progressive community in the last ten years or so has focused on standards and the horrific, No Child Left Behind, the Gates-Duncan plans for K-12 school closures, school militarization plans and Race to the Top, Wall Street privatizers and philanthro-pirates like the Bill and Melinda Gates
James Mersotis of The Lumina Foundation
Foundation along with the Lumina
