Officials at City College of San Francisco will unveil a tough blueprint for survival Thursday that will include an increased focus on moving students through the two-year school, a more centralized approach to finances and closing campuses… The school has prepared a balanced budget but it depends on the passage in November of Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed temporary tax increase. If that fails, City College will be facing an additional $11 million in cuts for the current year alone. The 90,000-student institution is hopeful that a local ballot measure will also pass, guaranteeing $14 million a year that can’t be touched by state budget cuts. But even if both measures prevail, the school will face a deficit two years down the road without further hard choices, the report notes… painful budget cuts that seem to disproportionately affect faculty, staff and students. Narrowing the college’s mission to tailor to shrinking revenues, for example, “seems entirely backwards,” Messer said. “It’s backwards for the whole state and all of public education right now.”

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by Lee Romney, The Los Angeles Times.

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