f{"id":18417,"date":"2021-04-17T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=18417"},"modified":"2021-04-17T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:09:11","slug":"ccsf-layoffs-may-cut-english-as-a-second-language-in-half-inciting-virtual-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/ccsf-layoffs-may-cut-english-as-a-second-language-in-half-inciting-virtual-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"CCSF layoffs may cut English as a Second Language in half, inciting virtual rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cuts would gut up to 52 percent of the ESL staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/29d7b6d94560322b560c82124996b1ef?s=80&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/author\/annikah\/\">ANNIKA HOM<\/a><\/strong>  APRIL 16, 2021  (MissionLocal.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission6-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission6-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission6-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission6-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission6-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission6-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission6.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>City College San Francisco, Mission campus. Photo by Annika Hom on April 14, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As City College San Francisco threatens to lay off nearly 200 full-time faculty by mid-May, students and teachers from the school\u2019s English as a Second Language program pleaded the college to save it during a virtual protest on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds joined District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar and the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 union at a Zoom press conference where they argued that gutting the English as Second Language (ESL) program would harm the thousands of immigrants who rely on the courses to gain citizenship, socially assimilate, or find better paying jobs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the layoffs go through, advocates suggest that the ESL department would suffer a particularly \u201ccrippling hit.\u201d At present, there are 69 full-time staff and 52 part-time staff in the ESL program, and Local 2121 vice president Mary Bravewoman said the cuts would gut up to 52 percent of the staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The union said 44 part-time faculty will be gone, and 19 full-time ESL staff also got handed pink slips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFurther cuts to the ESL program will really close a door to opportunity for limited English speakers at a time when they need it most to recover from the economic impacts of the health pandemic,\u201d Mar said. \u201c[These programs] are important, just more generally for building skills and capacity for everyone to participate in civic life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s so devastating that my professors will lose their jobs and I will lose my education.\u201dDEBORA BADAIR, BRAZILIAN IMMIGRANT AND CITY COLLEGE SAN FRANSICSO STUDENT SINCE 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March, City College of San Francisco officially announced that its Board of Trustees passed out pink slips to 163 full-time faculty and 34 administrators which will affect the ESL program, the nursing department, aircraft maintenance and Philippines Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The College pointed to a $33 million budget shortfall for the 2021-22 fiscal year as the reason for the layoffs, which was largely the result of staff and pension costs and deficit spending for more than 10 years. In 2021, CCSF withdrew $21 million to cover retiree expenses for two fiscal years and, at present, 93 percent of the College\u2019s budget goes toward salary and benefits, the college stated in a March press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe magnitude of the budget challenges means that City College is reducing the number of classes it will offer, as well as curtailing some student services. These reductions, while painful, are necessary to ensure the long-term stability of the College,\u201d the statement said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The salary for a full-time professor with a bachelor\u2019s degree starts at $63,230 and increases by approximately $2,000 each extra year they work, according&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aft2121.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Payscales-FT-Annual.pdf\">to the July 2020 pay scales<\/a>. Those with a master\u2019s initially earn $65,900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bravewoman responded to this on Thursday, and said the 93 percent staffing budget was necessary, as \u201cthe classroom doesn\u2019t run without faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local 2121 president Malaika Finkelstein, who works at the Mission campus, agreed, citing that San Francisco is an expensive city to live in. \u201c[The college] really [doesn\u2019t] have money, that\u2019s true. Our pay scale needs to be able to allow us to live here, otherwise we have no college,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finkelstein said the college and union are exploring a plethora of options to keep the classes funded: possible local or state funding in the short term \u201cto stop the bleeding;\u201d federal Covid-19 money that union members argue can be used to extend class sections and rehire staff; or possible wage concessions (no specifics have been put forth).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">READ:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2021\/03\/hundreds-virtually-protest-ccsf-layoffs-that-will-affect-nearly-200-faculty\/\">Hundreds virtually protest CCSF layoffs that will affect nearly 200 faculty<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/author\/annikah\/\"><\/a>by&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/author\/annikah\/\">ANNIKA HOM<\/a><\/strong>MARCH 12, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already, City College has endured a myriad of issues and controversies, including almost&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-city-college-san-francisco-accreditation-20170119-story.html\">losing its accreditation<\/a>, closures of other campuses and class cuts, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/proposed-pay-raises-for-city-college-administrators-anger-students-faculty\/\">padding six-figure administrator salaries an extra $100,000<\/a>. Much more recently, the college shut down its Fort Mason campus and experienced a shortage in enrollment during 2020, following the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ESL program, too, downsized 20 percent after the Spring, 2020, semester, when about 15,000 students attended English classes in the program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tenaya Lafore, who taught at City College since 2016, was among those laid off for the summer and fall of 2020. Though she was offered some hours in summer of 2021, she said she worries the potential cuts could rob students of the ability to choose a class that fits their schedule, as many are working-class immigrants who lived in the Mission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf they were working nights, they\u2019d go to morning classes,\u201d Lafore said. \u201cThere were classes all day and on Saturdays from 8 to 8, multiple sections of every level, so they could find a class and a location that worked for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel Halford, a part-time teacher at the ESL program at City College since 2006, was laid off along with 24 others for one semester in 2013, he said. But he finds the current situation much worse, as he believes the cuts might obliterate the specific courses geared toward citizenship, and vocational classes, such as nursing and janitorial services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s people who come to noncredit ESL who had a great job in their country,\u201d Halford said. \u201cBut for example, for nursing, you have to pass an exam here, but the exam is only in English. There are people who want to continue the wonderful careers they already have, but need the language to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/default.sfplanning.org\/publications_reports\/SF_NGBD_SocioEconomic_Profiles\/2012-2016_ACS_Profile_Neighborhoods_Final.pdf\">In San Francisco, 35 percent of the population is foreign-born<\/a>. About 12 percent of all households speak a foreign language at home, and speak English less than \u201cvery well.\u201d In Spanish-speaking homes, this shoots up to 21 percent; Asian households, 36 percent; and European households, 17 percent; and 13 percent speak \u201cother languages,\u201d according to 2016 city data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday\u2019s rally appeared to reflect this in some capacity: students of all ages and English levels revealed they had immigrated from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Vietnam, China, Brazil, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many said that halting classes would do the same for their learning.&nbsp; \u201c[These] gave me the freedom to say what I want, to go where I want, \u201c said Brazilian immigrant Debora Badair.&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s so devastating that my professors will lose their jobs and I will lose my education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other former and more advanced students said how mastery of English and other skills changed their lives. One was a current member of the grassroots immigrant organization&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.podersf.org\/\">PODER SF<\/a>, and another was a newly bilingual student who read poems titled \u201cHow City College Saved My Life.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maria Rivera said City College enabled her to work her way up from non-credit English classes to her associate\u2019s degree. This year she acquires a degree in mathematics from the University of California Berkeley.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"930\" height=\"523\" src=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission7.png 930w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission7-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission7-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission7-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mission7-250x141.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><figcaption>Participants from the virtual protest of City College San Francisco cuts and how it will affect the English as a Second Language program. Taken on April 15, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it made a leader out of Tania Estrada, the current Community Programs Director of the Women\u2019s Building, who immigrated to the United States nine years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen firsthand what a successful life looks like when you have the accessibility of these resources,\u201d Estrada said in English and Spanish, noting the classes encouraged her to take leadership roles and volunteer at the Women\u2019s Building eight years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe peers and community motivates you. I met my first friend there, who is from Bangladesh, who I still talk to every day,\u201d Estrada said. Now, she refers Women\u2019s Building participants to the CCSF ESL non-credit classes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Layoffs won\u2019t be official until final layoff notices come on May 15, 2021, a March statement from the college said. The statement added that college leaders and union members were speaking weekly to save some jobs. The college did not respond to request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finkelstein said that the college had asked department chairs to draft a potential fall 2021 schedule which included only two to three full-time faculty cuts, though several part-time jobs remained on the chopping bloc. It is unclear whether that will be implemented, but Finkelstein said the union is \u201cnot closed\u201d to the idea of wage concessions, which the college offered to consider in lieu of less layoffs. Finkelstein also said that, in the past, the union attempted to negotiate wage concessions with the college, but nothing came to fruition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Support Mission Local<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you all for making our campaign a success. To all those who have not yet donated, WE NEED YOU. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/support-our-publication\/\" target=\"_blank\">$25<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.givegab.com\/campaigns\/mission-local-membership\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0$120 $480<\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/support-our-publication\/\" target=\"_blank\">Choose your own amount<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/29d7b6d94560322b560c82124996b1ef?s=80&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ANNIKA HOM<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annika Hom is our inequality reporter through our partnership with Report for America. Annika was born and raised in the Bay Area. She previously interned at SF Weekly and the Boston Globe where she focused&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/author\/annikah\/\">More by Annika Hom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cuts would gut up to 52 percent of the ESL staff. by\u00a0ANNIKA HOM APRIL 16, 2021 (MissionLocal.org) As City College San Francisco threatens to lay off nearly 200 full-time faculty by mid-May, students and teachers from the school\u2019s English as a Second Language program pleaded the college to save&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/ccsf-layoffs-may-cut-english-as-a-second-language-in-half-inciting-virtual-rally\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CCSF layoffs may cut English as a Second Language in half, inciting virtual rally -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/ccsf-layoffs-may-cut-english-as-a-second-language-in-half-inciting-virtual-rally\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CCSF layoffs may cut English as a Second Language in half, inciting virtual rally -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The cuts would gut up to 52 percent of the ESL staff. by\u00a0ANNIKA HOM APRIL 16, 2021 (MissionLocal.org) As City College San Francisco threatens to lay off nearly 200 full-time faculty by mid-May, students and teachers from the school\u2019s English as a Second Language program pleaded the college to save... 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