The 19-member commission expects to change its rules, permit City College to request more time to comply with accrediting standards, and avoid what some have called the catastrophic consequences of shutting down a college attended by nearly 80,000 students who would have few other educational options. The decision ends two years of uncertainty at City College that has resulted in the loss of thousands of students - and the state funding that follows them - because many feared enrolling at a school on the brink of closure. The commission's decision is expected to send waves of relief not only across the campus but throughout the Bay Area, where employers - including hospitals, restaurants, police and fire departments - depend on City College to provide skilled workers, and where thousands of residents depend on the school for classes. A judge blocked that moved pending the outcome of a trial in October to decide whether the commission broke rules in its 2012 evaluation of City College when it placed the school on its harshest sanction and gave it less than eight months to come into compliance.
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