Judge refuses to halt October trial over CCSF accreditation

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Source: SF Chronicle

(09-19) 18:19 PDT San Francisco -- A judge on Friday refused to halt the Oct. 27 trial that will determine if a commission properly evaluated City College of San Francisco before voting to revoke its accreditation.

But Judge Curtis Karnow handed one early victory to San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who is suing the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges in hopes of invalidating the commission's now-delayed decision to revoke accreditation. The loss of accreditation would cause the school of nearly 80,000 students to shut down.

Each side had asked Karnow to halt the trial and declare their side the winner.

On Friday, Karnow said a trial was needed to sort everything out - but he agreed with Herrera on one of the city attorney's 13 arguments: that the accrediting commission broke federal rules by having only one professor on a team it sent to evaluate City College in 2013. (The make-up of a 2012 evaluation team is also under dispute, but Karnow did not rule on that.)

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Judge-refuses-to-halt-October-trial-over-CCSF-5768244.php

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1. The loss of CCSF would be a terrible blow to education in San Francisco. It's filled with motivated

students.

The land CCSF sits on used to be “County Sheriff’s House of Correction Number Three.” Maybe the accreditation commission would rather see it turned into a for-profit prison.

There's a fascinating history of CCSF here: https://www.ccsf.edu/en/about-city-college/marketing_publications/history_of_city_college/_jcr_content/contentparsys/documentlink/file.res/History%20of%20City%20College%20of%20San%20Francisco.pdf