Good afternoon supervisors. Im going to begin by echoing what you said about the City Attorneys Office and the extraordinary work that [inaudible] and colleagues there did. All most immediately following the accjc announcement it would terminate city colleges accredidation in 2013, i think the City Attorney got where the accjc was taking college wasnt a good place and he and his office stepped up in a huge way to protect this vital civic institution. Some attorneys i know are involved, i may not name all of them, evon [inaudible] tom [inaudible] and matte goldburg all just incredible wurks and get calls from them on weekends and night. They were working all the time for about a 6 month period i think on this. Evon talked a little about what we got out of it and agree with everything that she said. Securing the injunction from judge car now the accjc cannot terminate accredidation until had case had run the course, the City Attorneys Office [inaudible] would not be able to can close cit
Have paid staff. They also said the acts they committed were not unlawful or unfair. They said they were like courts so actions should be barred by judicial immunity. They said our action is preimpative but the United States department of education acknowledges accredters and said [inaudible] called nora penningten which protects certain political speech. All these there ease were shot down by the court. We had a series of dooling motions for summary adudeication trying to widdle down what would be kwide at trial. We won a very small portion thofe motion, but the court wanted to have a trial. Wanted a trial quickly and the trial was set for the last week of oct2014. The trial lasted 5 days. There were numerous witnesses who gave testimony. We presented life experlt testimony. The court also permitted to submit testimony in the form of deposition transscripts. The court heard the arguments, considered all the evidence and issued a tentative decision and that decision found that the ajcc
Accjc permit city college if it chose to opt into a prosthat would confer upon it the due process st. Had lacked. Required the accjc submitted a report with all the deficiencies and gave the callling a opportunity to respond. City college was not a party in our carcand as the court acknowledged that limited what the court could do or command city college to do. But thein the end i think the lute achieved really important objectives. First the reliminary injunction gave city college time where the termination decision wasnt held in advance. It also gave the accjc [inaudible] city college pass adnew process. New process it presented to the city college. It was called restoration. Restoration was aprosthat the accjc unfolded to give the college a opportunity to reactivate or come from under the termination decision. If not for the lawsuit city college may have closed. There arecity college has amazing support, but the accjc is the only accredter and losing accredidation is a hefty price a
Alex randolph is here as well as sunel williams from the board of trustees. [inaudible] good afternoon supervisors. Im going to begin by echoing what you said about the City Attorneys Office and the extraordinary work that [inaudible] and colleagues there did. All most immediately following the accjc announcement it would terminate city colleges accredidation in 2013, i think the City Attorney got where the accjc was taking college wasnt a good place and he and his office stepped up in a huge way to protect this vital civic institution. Some attorneys i know are involved, i may not name all of them, evon [inaudible] tom [inaudible] and matte goldburg all just incredible wurks and get calls from them on weekends and night. They were working all the time for about a 6 month period i think on this. Evon talked a little about what we got out of it and agree with everything that she said. Securing the injunction from judge car now the accjc cannot terminate accredidation until had case had
Who lends their name for products when charity and the pitch dont mix. Good everything, everyone, thanks for joining us, i am adam may in for joie chen. Tonight we begin i story that has divided a community. Church versus state im beloved Catholic School administrator forced to resign because hes married, legally to another man. The case raises many questions as local archdiocese across the country struggle to reconcile traditional catholic teachings with pope francis more modern comments about games. Here is america tonights shiia mick vicker. They are a couple who say that they are very much in love. They were legally married last july in Washington State. Samesex marriage was legalized there just over a year ago. It was their marriage that simple act, that cost mark his job. I dont feel like i have done anything wrong. I married the love of my life. It is legal in the state of washington. Reporter and its very important and i want to be married and still have my faith and still beli