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San Francisco voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to recall three Democrats on the city’s school board who have been embroiled in controversy over the last year.
The recall effort was sparked by frustrations that the board wasn’t prioritizing getting students back into classrooms during the coronavirus pandemic, choosing instead to focus on changing the names of schools from historical figures deemed to have contributed to racism. The research into dropping names like Sen. Dianne Feinstein and President Abraham Lincoln from schools was seen as shoddy, rushed and full of historical inaccuracies. The board later dropped the effort.
“It was so poorly executed that it made a mockery of the broader push for historical reckoning in the United States,” the San Francisco Chronicle said in an editorial endorsing the recall. “It alienated instead of educated, and invited national ridicule.”
San Francisco school board Commissioner Alison Collins speaks during a rally at school district headquarters in San Francisco, March 31, 2021.
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Only three of the board’s seven members have served long enough to be eligible for a recall: Board President Gabriela Lopez and two commissioners, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga. All three are Democrats.
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A pedestrian walks past a San Francisco Unified School District office building in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022.
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If any or all of them are recalled, Mayor London Breed will appoint their replacements.
“Sadly, our school board’s priorities have often been severely misplaced,” Breed said in her endorsement of the recall. “Our kids must come first.”
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