Supervisor Connie Chan held a hearing Wednesday where community members urged the Board of Supervisors to prevent Mayor Lurie from cutting a program by 30% that offers cash grants to low-income students through City College’s “Free City” program.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s new budget proposal, due June 1, will include a 30% cut to “Free City Cash Grants,” a component of City College’s “Free City” program, as the Chronicle reports. The cash grants program provides low-income City College students with funds matching their $46-per-credit fees, which the state had already covered, for expenses like housing, food, and books.
Lurie’s proposed cuts, which would not impact the main Free City program, would reduce funding for cash grants from $9.3 million to $6.4 million. According to 48Hills, the cash grants program, which benefitted 6,000 low-income students last year, would violate a longstanding Memorandum of Understanding between the city and the school…