A major community college here in the Bay Area is at risk of losing its accreditation. It all stems from the way it has handled its budget. City College of San Francisco says this week the chancellor will appoint an "accreditation SWAT team" to hunker down and address the issues at hand, all of which seem to revolve around money, for example, budget planning, forecasting and how the college owns and manages its buildings. The school says the headlines of imminent closure are exaggerated. "The doomsday speculation that was in the newspaper yesterday is probably more to the overheated imagination of some headline writer," said Larry Kamer, a City College spokesman. Kamer was hired by the college last week to handle the media during this accreditation crisis. The board says it has been instructed not to talk.
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