Free city! : the fight to save San Francisco's city college and education for all / Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, Vicki Legion, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rein, Marcy, editor.

Ellinger, Mickey, editor.

Legion, Vicki, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland : PM Press, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Free City! The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All tells the story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US. In 2012, the accreditor sanctioned City College of San Francisco, one of the biggest and best community colleges in the country, and a year later proposed terminating its accreditation, leading to a state takeover. Free City! follows the multipronged strategies of the campaign and the diverse characters that carried them out. Teachers, students, labor unions, community groups, public officials, and concerned individuals saved a treasured public institution as San Francisco's working-class communities of color battled the gentrification that was forcing them out of the city. And they pushed back against the national "reform" agenda of corporate workforce training that drives students towards debt and sidelines lifelong learning and community service programs. Combining analysis with narrative, Free City! offers a case study in the power of positive vision and solution-oriented organizing and a reflection on what education can and should be.

Contents:

Prologue: They Love It Enough to Fight for It

CHAPTER ONE: San Francisco's Community College

CHAPTER TWO: The Sword Drops

CHAPTER THREE: Makeover : Crisis Is the New Normal

CHAPTER FOUR: San Francisco Steps Up

CHAPTER FIVE: From Scared to Mad

CHAPTER SIX: The Light at the End of the Tunnel Is an Oncoming Train

CHAPTER SEVEN: Takeover

CHAPTER EIGHT: All the Work Matters : Resistance Gets First Traction

CHAPTER NINE: Takeover Speeds Makeover, Resistance Builds

CHAPTER TEN: Whose School? Whose City?

CHAPTER ELEVEN: They Can't Stop. We Won't Stop.

CHAPTER TWELVE: ACCJC on Trial

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Central City Rising

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: How Can We Keep Winning and Still Be Losing?

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Strike for the School Our City Deserves

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Back to the Land

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Free City Flips the Script

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: A Chance to Rebuild

Epilogue: One Struggle Sets theTable for the Next

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Acronym Key

Interviews

Resources

APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1: Chronology of the Crisis

APPENDIX 2: The Policy Network That Drives Community College Education "Reform"

APPENDIX 3: Student Learning Outcomes: SLO Torture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781629638454

1629638455