City College Loses Latest Appeal, Running Out of Options to Stay Open

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Eric Blanc, a student at City College of San Francisco, speaks to a crowd of students and protesters who have marched to Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman’s office and have taken over the lobby, demanding to be heard, in Feb. 21, 2013. Photo by Deborah Svoboda/KQED

By Isabel Angell, KQED News Fix

City College of San Francisco is mulling over one of its final options in its fight to stay open. The commission overseeing its fate rejected new evidence Monday that school administrators presented in hopes to prove it has fixed financial and managerial problems behind the threatened loss of accreditation.

City College must now decide by the end of this month whether to ask the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges to grant it “restoration status.”

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.
 

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