The Oak Leaf
CCSF info page on SSTF
Here’s a link with more extensive info on an issue that’s been simmering on the back burner of CA community colleges for a while – but which is now becoming crucial as recommendations from a group called the “student success task force” goes before the CA Assembly.
Here are some thoughts I’ve gathered on the recommendations thus far:
- would reduce local control of community colleges
- would hold students to a initial educational plan
- would strongly discourage students from taking classes outside that plan by denying financial aid to anything but the planned course – in a set time
- would reduce that financial aid to re-entering or older students
- would shift resources from other programs to core skills such as math, sciences, english
- would reduce funding for classes that benefit the community such as free ESL (English as a Second Language) classes
More to come here: here is the link to the November 16th Debate at City College on this topic. Very objective information layout and thorough. Several students groups debated the issue at Diego Riviera Theater and the consensus I took away was that the SSTF recommendations were roundly rejected as a bad solution for San Francisco community and its community college.
Educate yourself – these are your options. I’ll soon add more with steps to take.
Cheers.Misha
