What is Happening in Schools Serving the Working Class

(Zoom event)
Forum by HEAT (Higher Education Action Team) on privatization of education community colleges.

Big changes have been underway in community colleges that are restricting opportunities for working class students to get a well-rounded education in which they can take time to explore areas in which they have interests. Instead, to foster what is deemed to be “success,” students are under increasing pressure to declare a major, finish a program within two years, or take classes to be eligible to transfer to a four-year college. Programs taken for personal enrichment that do not lead to a certificate or degree such as older adult classes are being severely cut or eliminated.

The panel discussion will cover issues of concern that go beyond community colleges affecting public education. Among the topics to be covered are the new California state community college chancellor, various agencies that have a large impact on public education including the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), privatization, online classes, large amounts of money for public education being placed into reserve accounts, and the role of teacher unions.

Panel Speakers:
Madeline Mueller, chair of the music department at City College of San Francisco (CCSF)
Jack Gerson, retired Oakland teacher
Kathleen Carroll,
Rick Baum, part-time Political Science Teacher at CCSF

HEAT https://www.ccsfheat.org