Description
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.
Author: Marcy Rein
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 06/29/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781629638294
ISBN10: 1629638293
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Education | History
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
About the Author
Mickey Ellinger writes regularly for News from Native California. Vicki Legion has been on the faculty at City College of San Francisco since 1994. Pauline Lipman is a professor in the Educational Policy Studies Department at the College of Education, University of Illinois-Chicago. Marcy Rein is a writer, editor, and organizer.