USD School of Law has new scholarship for DACA students

Kate Morrissey San Diego Union Tribune
Aug 27, 2018

University of San Diego School of Law has a new scholarship fund for unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

Though the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protects these immigrants from deportation, it does not give them access to federal funding for higher education. USD School of Law hopes that having such a scholarship will enable more DACA recipients to go to law school.

Help get rid of for-profit charter schools in California

Dear Enrique,

This is our chance to get rid of for-profit charter schools in California

Please take a moment to write a letter to Governor Jerry Brown, urging him to sign Assembly Bill 406, a landmark bill that would prohibit charter schools from operating as or by a for-profit corporation, a for-profit Educational Management Organization (EMO), or a Charter Management Organization (CMO).

Sponsored by CFT, and authored by Assemblymember Kevin McCarty and co-authored by Assemblymember Tony Thurmond, the bill recently passed out of the California legislature and is now on the governor’s desk awaiting his signature.

Urge Governor Brown to ban for-profit charters

We know that there are currently 35 charter schools in California enrolling over 25,000 students that are either being operated as for-profit corporations or by for-profit corporations. These schools not only take money away from students for corporate profits with little to no transparency or accountability, they also take students away from traditional public schools, thus significantly impacting school funding at the district and school levels. Student achievement in these schools is dismal, posting graduation rates less than half of the statewide average.

AB 406 is an important step in ensuring that our public education dollars are not diverted to corporate profits. It is part of a broader effort by the CFT and other education advocates to hold charter schools accountable to the same standards as public schools.

Please take a moment to write a letter to the governor, encouraging him to sign this important piece of legislation into law.

Friends of Downtown Scholarship Opportuntiy for Students

We currently have two scholarship opportunities on the SDCity.AcademicWorks.com site – Friends of Downtown Academic and Friends of Downtown Vocational – I ask that you please share these scholarship opportunities with your students.

Please be sure to create a profile on Academicworks to apply for this scholarship opportunity – last year Friends of Downtown gave away 42 $750 scholarships to City College Students!

Let me know if you have any questions and PLEASE feel free to share the poster below (and attached) with your students or in your office.

Thank you –

Sylvia Ramirez
Scholarship Coordinator
1313 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA, San Diego 92101-4787
619-388-3983

Sign the petition to stop Betsy DeVos from putting guns in schools

Anna Fusco [moveon-help@list.moveon.org]

Friday, August 24, 2018 11:40 AM

Sign the petition telling Betsy DeVos to use federal funds for education not putting guns into schools.

Dear MoveOn member,

I'm Anna Fusco, Broward Teachers Union president in Florida, and I started a petition to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos because she is considering a plan that would allow states to use Title IV federal funds to purchase guns for teachers.1

Arming teachers is not a solution to school shootings. Educators want to teach, not be armed at school. Students and parents want schools to be safe and welcoming places.

https://chicanaodispatches.blogspot.com/2018/08/sign-petition-to-stop-betsy-devos-from.html

US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over 'modern slavery'

US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over 'modern slavery' 

National Prison Strike

Men and women incarcerated in prisons across the nation declare a nationwide strike in response to the riot in Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in South Carolina. Seven comrades lost their lives during a senseless uprising that could have been avoided had the prison not been so overcrowded from the greed wrought by mass incarceration, and a lack of respect for human life that is embedded in our nation’s penal ideology. These men and women are demanding humane living conditions, access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform and the end of modern day slavery.

Horror at TX Detention Center: ICE Guards Separate Fathers & Sons After They Had Just Been Reunited

Democracy Now Aug 20, 2018

In Texas, armed guards forcibly removed 16 fathers from the Karnes County detention center, where they were being held with their sons after the families were separated at the border and then reunited. Authorities appear to have reseparated the parents and sons as retaliation for organizing a nonviolent protest. Many of the imprisoned fathers said they had been tricked into signing deportation agreements in English that ICE told them were reunification papers. 
The families have now been reunited, and some have been released. For more, we speak with Casey Miller and Manoj Govindaiah
 with RAICES, a Texas-based legal aid group for immigrants.

Campus emergencies

Seconds count

1.    For a life threatening situation, call 911 from any campus telephone, pay or cell phone. This will also notify College Police Dispatch.

2.    If dispatch does not call you immediately on your campus line contact  COLLEGE POLICE DISPATCH: Press the button designated COLLEGE POLICE on your phone or call (619)388-6405.

3.    PROGRAM SDCCD POLICE DISPATCH NUMBER INTO YOUR CELL PHONE---(619) 388-6405 and Download our safety app, LIVESAFE,  on to any smart phone using your app store, then select San Diego City College to receive emergency information and notifications.

4.    Remember that COLLEGE POLICE are the FIRST RESPONDERS for emergencies. They patrol our campus, can readily dispatch help, are CPR certified and have defibrillator access (AED). In knowing our campus they assure paramedics can quickly locate the victim for transfer to an appropriate medical facility.

5.    Please do not delay emergency care for the victim by first seeking out a Student Health Clinic nurse, going to City Campus Police Offices, or by calling the City Police Business Office. This wastes valuable seconds in an emergency; which may in-turn delay the Emergency Response Team (paramedics) and College Police Dispatch.

6.    Familiarize yourself with the nearest AED (defibrillator) and emergency call box locations on campus!

7.     For more information about safety at SDCCD, go to http://police.sdccd.edu

You may call us in the Student Health Clinic at X 3450 if you have questions.

1 Unit Class To Help You With Writing

 
If you have a class that requires extensive writing, you are welcome to register for English 13A if you need additional support. It’s a late start, one-unit class designed to provide you with help to improve upon your writing assignments from your other classes.

San Diego City College Library

City Bookstore

Hello Everyone!

The City Bookstore is still located in three different locations for swing space for this semester.

B105 – TEXTBOOKS ONLY.  Clerk-service basis: A bookstore staff member will pull the books for each student according to their schedule.  It is extremely important that each student remember to bring his/her printed schedule in order to purchase textbooks.

B202 – SCHOOL SUPPLIES, CLOTHING, BACKPACKS, GIFTS.   REFUNDS will also be processed from this room.  Although this room is not clerk-service, space is limited so only a few students will be able to enter at one time.

MS Bookstore –MATH, ARTF, ARTG, COSM, NRSE are located in this bookstore.

Below are the City Bookstore hours for the week of August 20^th.  Please note the extended hours in red.

 

Thank you.

 

Dee

 

 

B105/B202

 

Week of August 20

Monday – Thursday                        745am – 700pm

Friday                                                    745am – 200pm

Saturday                                              1000am – 100pm

 

 

MS STORE

 

Week of August 20

Monday – Thursday                        745am – 630pm

Friday                                                    745am – 1200pm

Dee Dee Porter
Campus Store Supervisor
San Diego City College | 1313 Park Boulevard A12 | San Diego, CA | 92101
619-388-3549 | dporter@sdccd.edu | http://www.bookstore.sdccd.edu/city/

Your HISTORY, KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE … is waiting for you.

Chicana and Chicano Studies
San Diego City College

Open Chicana/o Studies Classes:

• US History from Chicanx Perspective 141A Course # 04844
• Mexican Literature 130 # Course 79218
• Chicanx Literature 135 # Course 92450
• La Chicana 170 # Course 93839
• History of Mexico 150 Course # 87432

Go to Schedule.sdccd.edu for full listing