S.F. City College students, faculty protest impending massive cuts to classes and teachers
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Students exit classes inside the Creative Arts building at City College of San Francisco s Ocean Campus in San Francisco on February 12, 2020.Jessica Christian / The Chronicle
City College of San Francisco students and faculty are planning to protest against major cuts to the school’s staff on Thursday night. The proposed cuts follow reports that City College is at risk of insolvency and a takeover by the state because it hasn’t cut its payroll enough to compensate for a huge loss of students.
The demonstration is part of continued pushback to the impending budget cuts, and comes just a few weeks before City College’s trustees are set to vote on cuts to full-time faculty on May 10. Last month, officials sent out 163 layoff warnings to full-time teachers, and expect to lay off an additional 447 part-time teachers for next fall, slashing hundreds of classes in the p