By Sara Bloomberg, KQED
With the deadline for City College of San Francisco to lose its accreditation less than 10 months out, city officials are questioning its economic impact on the city.
The answer appears to be at least $311 million.
At a Budget and Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday, Supervisor Eric Mar called an evaluation he had requested on the college’s economic impact “groundbreaking.”
“I think this report is groundbreaking because it quantifies a huge economic impact to the city and county of San Francisco and so many families and people of San Francisco, young and old, that have improved their lives” by taking classes there, Mar said. CCSF is the largest community college in the state, with 80,000 students enrolled in the 2012-2013 academic year.
Severin Campbell, a representative of the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst office, presented the findings of the report, which breaks down the economic impact into two main categories: grant funding and jobs.
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