{"id":311,"date":"2017-05-18T22:29:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T05:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevezeltzer.com\/laborfest\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=311"},"modified":"2019-06-29T14:06:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T21:06:58","slug":"the-destruction-of-city-college-of-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/event\/the-destruction-of-city-college-of-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Destruction of City College of San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style386\">Public education has been under attack for many years. The forms of attack include inadequate funding, privatization, corporatization, and hostility towards teacher and staff unions. Many students and public school employees have been harmed.<br \/>\nOne college that has been relentlessly assaulted is City College of San Francisco (CCSF). It is a very popular public institution as reflected in the fact that over 80% of voters approved a parcel tax to help fund CCSF in the November 2016 election.<br \/>\nIn 2008, more than 100,000 students were enrolled in classes at CCSF. Today, its enrollment is less than 60,000 and the number of its scheduled classes has been significantly reduced.<br \/>\nWhy has there been an assault on this working class public institution? Who is behind it? What can be done to restore CCSF?<br \/>\nThis panel will discuss and provide answers to these questions with help from the audience.<br \/>\n<\/span><em><strong>Rick Baum<\/strong><\/em><span class=\"style386\">, AFT 2121 Lecturer<br \/>\n<\/span><em><strong>Medeline Mueller<\/strong><\/em><span class=\"style386\">, CCSF Music Department Chair<br \/>\nSponsored by United Public Workers For Action<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upwa.info\/\"><span class=\"style388\">www.upwa.info<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Free | <\/strong> Public education has been under attack for many years. The forms of attack include inadequate funding, privatization, corporatization, and hostility towards teacher and staff unions. Many students and public school employees have been harmed. One college that has been relentlessly assaulted is City College of San Francisco (CCSF). It is a very popular public institution as reflected in the fact that over 80% of voters approved a parcel tax to help fund CCSF in the November 2016 election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":707,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[20,82,37],"class_list":["post-311","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-20","tribe_events_cat-2017-forum-reading","tribe_events_cat-forum_reading","cat_17","cat_2017-forum-reading","cat_forum_reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/311\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}