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"content": "\u003cp>Lowell High School's merit-based admissions policy is not settled and is instead a \"looming question\" for the San Francisco Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's according to one of the San Francisco Board of Education's newest members, Alida Fisher, who won her seat on the board in something of an upset this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that Lowell is definitely something that we as a board are going to have to address. It is a looming question for sure,\" Fisher told KQED in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board's previous termination of Lowell's merit-based admissions policy is thought to have activated parents, especially those who are Asian American, who were angry at the board for reverting to the same lottery system as other SFUSD schools.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alida Fisher, board member, SFUSD\"]'I want to make sure that whatever we do with our high schools, we are bringing all the rest of our high schools up to those same levels of resources as Lowell and not tear Lowell apart.'[/pullquote]As has been previously reported, the school district's legal counsel warned that the merit-based admissions system — though favored strongly by some in the city — is \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/02/lowells-old-merit-based-admissions-policy-wont-come-back-no-matter-whos-on-the-school-board/\">incompatible with state law\u003c/a> and, if sued to end it, the school would likely lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's especially key as Fisher's win tips the school board's majority to progressive Democrats, who traditionally have been more apt to side with Black students and families who have wanted Lowell High School's admissions process to be lottery-based for the sake of equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher won the third of three spots by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932210/stunning-reversal-of-fortune-ann-hsu-voted-off-sf-school-board-following-racist-comments\">beating incumbent Ann Hsu\u003c/a>, whom Mayor London Breed appointed and who was part of the moderate-Democrat majority that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Big-votes-on-Lowell-and-Washington-mural-before-17259285.php\">voted to restore merit-based admissions at Lowell in June\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persistence was key to Fisher's win. She has run for the office twice unsuccessfully but, undeterred, finally won this November. She's a frequent voice at Board of Education meetings and is the advocacy chair on the SFUSD Community Advisory Committee for Special Education. Her decade-long advocacy springs from experience, as \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/meet-the-special-ed-advocate-who-ousted-ann-hsu-for-a-spot-on-sfs-school-board/\">one of her four children qualified for special education\u003c/a>, according to the SF Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher is a parent volunteer, and her work in the weeds of education policy helped earn her\u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UESF-112022-Voter-Guide-FINAL-1.pdf\"> the endorsement of the teachers union (PDF)\u003c/a>, the United Educators of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10961135\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10961135 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"An exterior view of Lowell High School, a gray, boxy building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main entrance of Lowell High School in San Francisco, on May 19, 2016. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the start, the debate over Lowell High School's admissions process propelled the San Francisco Board of Education election to the front of the city's conversation. Asian parents, partially galvanized by the loss of a merit-based admissions system at the school, pushed to recall three school board members earlier this year. San Francisco's Asian communities often view Lowell as both a symbolic and very real driver of economic success for their kids, while some in Black communities say its merit-based system is skewed in ways that have historically blocked their children from attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the brief time the school was under a lottery system, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Lowell-got-rid-of-competitive-admissions-New-16415271.php\">Black student enrollment did increase\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a wide-ranging interview with KQED, Fisher touched on topics including Lowell’s admissions policy as well as SFUSD’s broken payroll system and her early priorities on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview below has been edited for brevity and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOE FITZGERALD RODRIGUEZ: So how does it feel to have done what many said could not be done? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALIDA FISHER:\u003c/strong> Well, I don't think it's sunk in yet. I'm still in parent mode, I'm still in (SFUSD Community Advisory Committee for Special Education) board member mode where we're still in the middle of planning for a joint CAC-AAPAC (African American Parent Advisory Council) meeting tonight. And so my focus is there, thinking in two hours I've got to pick up the kids. So I don't think the enormity of what's happened has really sunk in yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So what are your first priorities on the board?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know I have a lot of work to do to catch up with the governance that the current board is focusing on. I really want to dig in and understand what's going on with EMPowerSF (the school district's staff payment system). I'm grateful that the superintendent has built the command center to actually get the issues fixed so that our teachers and our staff members get paid and benefits are offered, and if there's anything I can do to help keep that a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, long term, one of my biggest priorities — and an issue that I've been working on for years — is reading. We've got to make sure system-wide, throughout every single school in our district, that we've got the resources, we've got the curriculum, we've got the professional development, we have everything so that our kids are learning to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curriculum in our classroom, the methodology that our teachers are using, it's actually teaching our kids the foundational skills they need to be successful later in life. It's one of our biggest gaps right now. Less than half of our kids are proficient readers, and that's — as far as I'm concerned — one of the biggest mandates our school district has: to teach our kids to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There's one thing that folks are wondering openly about Lowell High School's future. Obviously, there's a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134421129/the-supreme-court-could-end-affirmative-action-what-could-happen-next\">much-anticipated Supreme Court decision that could strike down affirmative action\u003c/a>. And there's a lot of talk about the legality of Lowell's current status now. What's next?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, as far as the law goes, I think right now there are issues that take precedence in our district in front of Lowell. But what I am encouraged to see is this \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sf-board-education-votes-create-task-force-examine-sfusd-high-schools\">high school task force\u003c/a> that has been formed and met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long term, for me, I think that Lowell is a shining beacon in our system. It has an amazing number of resources. We've got great programs there. We've got a lot of alumni involvement, financially and in other ways. And I want to make sure that whatever we do with our high schools, we are bringing all the rest of our high schools up to those same levels of resources as Lowell and not tear Lowell apart. If every student had the resources at their fingertips that the students at Lowell have, I think we would see a dramatic shift in so many things that happen in our high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But as far as its legal status goes, I mean, is it not something that's open to challenge?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, I think it is open to challenge. I think that Lowell is definitely something that we as a board are going to have to address. It is a looming question for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like I said, it's one of many, many big issues that we need to tackle as a district. I am one of seven commissioners in a school district with 50,000 students. One of the things that I value most is authentic family engagement and community partnership. And so I expect that this is not work that I would do as one person in a vacuum. It would be work that is informed by many, including the attorneys who are the ones who actually do interpret the education code, not me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving back to the teacher pay issue, are you comfortable with how the district is handling it now? Do you get the sense that they're doing their best and that it's best to just get out of the way and let them do it? Or is there some sense of a need to step in and intervene?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, at the beginning of the school year, I was calling for transparency and accountability. And so what I appreciate, and I was not alone in that, is how Superintendent (Matt) Wayne started adding updates about EMPowerSF to every superintendent report at the school board meeting. And then when that wasn't enough and we continued to hear the calls from teachers and we had walkouts at schools, the command center was formed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so now we have senior leadership that is working alongside HR, all of our contractors, all of our software vendors, everyone in the same room every day. Not just to close the tickets that have been opened by teachers who weren't getting paid, but to actually address the root causes. And that was very encouraging to me, and hopefully to a lot of other folks. But I think that level of transparency needs to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has been going on for almost a year now. This is absolutely unacceptable. And I really appreciate that our leadership team have acknowledged that as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You went to the NAACP local chapter and talked to the folks there. Can you tell me what you felt the message was coming from Black leaders there?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I was honored to be able to attend the NAACP September meeting and to meet with the community members. The work that is being done and the assets that are being made, the calls to action, there's nothing new. Nothing has changed. The frustration is mounting because the asks are the same year over year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday night, for example, our African American Parent Advisory Council gave a report to the Board of Education, and there were no new asks this year in the report. They highlighted the asks that they have been making over the past few years, the calls for restorative practice for culturally humble and culturally responsive teaching practices, for educators to have high expectations for our Black students and to believe in our Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of this is new. And that's what I heard at the NAACP meeting as well and many other opportunities that families have to provide their input: \"Listen to us. Take us seriously. Include us in the decision-making process. Use us as authentic partners.\" That's, I think, universally what we hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One thing that your opponents and Ann Hsu's supporters might say is, they lost the chance for a critical voice for Chinese parents and Chinese families, specifically those with an immigrant background. What lessons can you take from what they prioritized in their messaging and their policies? And what can you take with you to the board when you represent all families?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that there are some things that are universal to all families, whether you're in San Francisco Unified, whether you're in a private school, or whether you're a grandparent or a parent. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As has been previously reported, the school district's legal counsel warned that the merit-based admissions system — though favored strongly by some in the city — is \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/02/lowells-old-merit-based-admissions-policy-wont-come-back-no-matter-whos-on-the-school-board/\">incompatible with state law\u003c/a> and, if sued to end it, the school would likely lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's especially key as Fisher's win tips the school board's majority to progressive Democrats, who traditionally have been more apt to side with Black students and families who have wanted Lowell High School's admissions process to be lottery-based for the sake of equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher won the third of three spots by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932210/stunning-reversal-of-fortune-ann-hsu-voted-off-sf-school-board-following-racist-comments\">beating incumbent Ann Hsu\u003c/a>, whom Mayor London Breed appointed and who was part of the moderate-Democrat majority that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Big-votes-on-Lowell-and-Washington-mural-before-17259285.php\">voted to restore merit-based admissions at Lowell in June\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Persistence was key to Fisher's win. She has run for the office twice unsuccessfully but, undeterred, finally won this November. She's a frequent voice at Board of Education meetings and is the advocacy chair on the SFUSD Community Advisory Committee for Special Education. Her decade-long advocacy springs from experience, as \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/meet-the-special-ed-advocate-who-ousted-ann-hsu-for-a-spot-on-sfs-school-board/\">one of her four children qualified for special education\u003c/a>, according to the SF Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher is a parent volunteer, and her work in the weeds of education policy helped earn her\u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UESF-112022-Voter-Guide-FINAL-1.pdf\"> the endorsement of the teachers union (PDF)\u003c/a>, the United Educators of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10961135\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10961135 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"An exterior view of Lowell High School, a gray, boxy building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/LowellHighSchoolMainEntranceFromEuclyptausStreet.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main entrance of Lowell High School in San Francisco, on May 19, 2016. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the start, the debate over Lowell High School's admissions process propelled the San Francisco Board of Education election to the front of the city's conversation. Asian parents, partially galvanized by the loss of a merit-based admissions system at the school, pushed to recall three school board members earlier this year. San Francisco's Asian communities often view Lowell as both a symbolic and very real driver of economic success for their kids, while some in Black communities say its merit-based system is skewed in ways that have historically blocked their children from attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the brief time the school was under a lottery system, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Lowell-got-rid-of-competitive-admissions-New-16415271.php\">Black student enrollment did increase\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a wide-ranging interview with KQED, Fisher touched on topics including Lowell’s admissions policy as well as SFUSD’s broken payroll system and her early priorities on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview below has been edited for brevity and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOE FITZGERALD RODRIGUEZ: So how does it feel to have done what many said could not be done? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ALIDA FISHER:\u003c/strong> Well, I don't think it's sunk in yet. I'm still in parent mode, I'm still in (SFUSD Community Advisory Committee for Special Education) board member mode where we're still in the middle of planning for a joint CAC-AAPAC (African American Parent Advisory Council) meeting tonight. And so my focus is there, thinking in two hours I've got to pick up the kids. So I don't think the enormity of what's happened has really sunk in yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So what are your first priorities on the board?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know I have a lot of work to do to catch up with the governance that the current board is focusing on. I really want to dig in and understand what's going on with EMPowerSF (the school district's staff payment system). I'm grateful that the superintendent has built the command center to actually get the issues fixed so that our teachers and our staff members get paid and benefits are offered, and if there's anything I can do to help keep that a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, long term, one of my biggest priorities — and an issue that I've been working on for years — is reading. We've got to make sure system-wide, throughout every single school in our district, that we've got the resources, we've got the curriculum, we've got the professional development, we have everything so that our kids are learning to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The curriculum in our classroom, the methodology that our teachers are using, it's actually teaching our kids the foundational skills they need to be successful later in life. It's one of our biggest gaps right now. Less than half of our kids are proficient readers, and that's — as far as I'm concerned — one of the biggest mandates our school district has: to teach our kids to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There's one thing that folks are wondering openly about Lowell High School's future. Obviously, there's a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134421129/the-supreme-court-could-end-affirmative-action-what-could-happen-next\">much-anticipated Supreme Court decision that could strike down affirmative action\u003c/a>. And there's a lot of talk about the legality of Lowell's current status now. What's next?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, as far as the law goes, I think right now there are issues that take precedence in our district in front of Lowell. But what I am encouraged to see is this \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sf-board-education-votes-create-task-force-examine-sfusd-high-schools\">high school task force\u003c/a> that has been formed and met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long term, for me, I think that Lowell is a shining beacon in our system. It has an amazing number of resources. We've got great programs there. We've got a lot of alumni involvement, financially and in other ways. And I want to make sure that whatever we do with our high schools, we are bringing all the rest of our high schools up to those same levels of resources as Lowell and not tear Lowell apart. If every student had the resources at their fingertips that the students at Lowell have, I think we would see a dramatic shift in so many things that happen in our high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But as far as its legal status goes, I mean, is it not something that's open to challenge?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, I think it is open to challenge. I think that Lowell is definitely something that we as a board are going to have to address. It is a looming question for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like I said, it's one of many, many big issues that we need to tackle as a district. I am one of seven commissioners in a school district with 50,000 students. One of the things that I value most is authentic family engagement and community partnership. And so I expect that this is not work that I would do as one person in a vacuum. 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Can you tell me what you felt the message was coming from Black leaders there?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I was honored to be able to attend the NAACP September meeting and to meet with the community members. The work that is being done and the assets that are being made, the calls to action, there's nothing new. Nothing has changed. The frustration is mounting because the asks are the same year over year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday night, for example, our African American Parent Advisory Council gave a report to the Board of Education, and there were no new asks this year in the report. They highlighted the asks that they have been making over the past few years, the calls for restorative practice for culturally humble and culturally responsive teaching practices, for educators to have high expectations for our Black students and to believe in our Black students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of this is new. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Unified school board commissioner Ann Hsu, who was widely condemned for racist comments she made earlier this year, has lost her seat to challenger Alida Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though previously Hsu was in third place in the Board of Education race — for three open seats — she dropped to fourth place on Monday, and never recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday, Hsu had no viable path to win. Hsu has 17.14% of the vote, with challenger Alida Fisher surpassing her at 17.75%. Fisher is leading Hsu by 4,054 votes — an insurmountable lead considering the 800 ballots left to count by the San Francisco Department of Elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWAeFHd0M-I\">YouTube video concession speech\u003c/a>, Hsu complained that people focused too much on the way she worded her sentiment about Black and brown families, instead of the message behind the words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding my campaign, we had challenges from the very beginning. It is unfortunate some people chose to focus on political correctness, rather than the substance of my entire statement,” Hsu said, which is that “parent involvement is critical to the success of children in school and in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continued that if some parents can’t help students succeed — due to culture or life circumstances — the school district needs to step in and help those students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the truth, whether politically correct or not,” Hsu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, an immigrant and a mother of SFUSD students, was appointed to the Board of Education by Mayor London Breed in March, following the recall of three school board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"ann-hsu\"]A few months later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920452/ann-hsu-sfusd-saga-after-racist-statement-whos-pushing-for-her-removal-and-whos-supporting-her\">Hsu faced her own calls to resign\u003c/a> from Black and brown communities after she made racist comments in a parents’ group candidate questionnaire, which she later apologized for. One Latina student speaking to KQED in August called Hsu’s comments “a slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that controversy, however, some prominent politicians called for forgiveness and grace. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920452/ann-hsu-sfusd-saga-after-racist-statement-whos-pushing-for-her-removal-and-whos-supporting-her\">Mayor London Breed asked\u003c/a>, “How do we come together and make this a teaching moment?” Even Hsu herself said she would conduct “listening sessions and community outreach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But did she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most prominent groups representing Black and Latinx San Franciscans, the NAACP and San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club, said Hsu never reached out to fix the harms she had caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulanda Williams, third vice president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP, said Hsu’s dwindling electoral support may show that San Francisco voters didn’t accept Hsu’s apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actions speak louder than words,” Williams said. “Hsu was lacking in cultural competency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWAeFHd0M-I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Ann Hsu’s concession speech in a YouTube video, above.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quincy Yu, Hsu’s campaign spokesperson, said it’s “not true” that Hsu has done no outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, her outreach was out of the spotlight, Yu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has for the last three months been in the community speaking to parents, faith-based organizations and nonprofit organizations. She has not politicized any of this. She has quietly and consistently reached out,” Yu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to name those organizations, Yu said, “I am not at liberty to disclose them. They are faith-based.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the intense scrutiny, early ballot returns showed Hsu as the third-place vote-getter for the San Francisco Board of Education, with three open positions. That changed Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Department of Elections has continued to count provisional ballots turned in the day of the election, and with each passing tally, Hsu’s grip on third place loosened. Monday, that grip slipped completely, and her closest competitor, Alida Fisher, a special education advocate, surpassed her into third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher now appears poised to join the Board of Education, as the pattern of ballot results has only continued in her favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931650 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg\" alt=\"Alida Fisher speaks into microphone at event\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District board candidate Alida Fisher speaks at an election night event at El Rio in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whoever joins the Board of Education will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927789/sf-school-board-candidates-try-to-distance-themselves-from-performative-politics-of-recalled-commissioners\">arrive during a time of turmoil and transition\u003c/a>: Students are still lagging in testing after pandemic lockdowns, payroll system errors have deprived many teachers of their salaries, and there’s a national concern for school safety following high-profile school shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is more at stake than just Hsu’s political career: Fisher’s win would tilt the ideological majority of the Board of Education away from supporting Mayor London Breed’s policies. A newly left-leaning board might, for instance, revisit the decision to make Lowell High School merit-based, long a desire of Black students who championed an open lottery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those speaking to KQED said it’s likely that, in the eye of the public, she never recovered from her comments saying Black and brown families do not value education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Fisher reached out to groups representing communities of color. She spoke at length to the local NAACP chapter last month and asked questions to help understand the needs of Black families attending San Francisco schools, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was so impressed with Fisher that, after the visit, she said, “I have far more hope that Fisher is more understanding and aware of Black culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher told KQED, “I don’t want to be the voice of Black families or of Latinx families or Pacific Islander families, but I sure as hell want to elevate their voices. I think that it’s important to have that. It’s important to have those voices represented. And if they’re not members who sit on the board themselves, then whatever I can do to help elevate their experiences and their perspectives, I see that as my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the NAACP, the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club also publicly discussed their disappointment in Hsu’s previous anti-Black and anti-brown comments. Bahlam Vigil, an officer of the club, said that after their public rebuke of Hsu and subsequent invitation to talk, she never responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve tried reaching out to her behind the scenes. We even asked Supervisor Gordon Mar to help. She reached out to us on Twitter, publicly, but she never followed up in private,” Vigil said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to build coalitions that are multicultural,” Vigil added. “We didn’t want to make this about politics, we wanted to make it about healing. We were really worried her comments would continue this divide that has perpetuated among communities of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu, Hsu’s spokesperson, said Hsu had learned much since the comments she made earlier in the year. Black and brown communities are firstly “not monolithic,” she said, and there are transportation issues and other roadblocks that are contributing to truancy among Black and Latinx students that Hsu is eager to help tackle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite what Yu described as quiet outreach, a lack of support from Black and brown San Francisco communities may be reflected as the remaining ballots are tallied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lee, political science lecturer at San Francisco State University, said the neighborhoods that voted strongest for Hsu were ones with the most Asian voters: the Richmond District, the Excelsior, Visitacion Valley and Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those neighborhoods alone weren’t enough to carry Hsu to victory. Her weak showing in more progressive neighborhoods on the eastern side of San Francisco was particularly notable given that Hsu was appointed to the school board, and incumbents are normally hard to topple. But Hsu also out-raised all of her opponents, Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu had more than $93,000 in campaign contributions; Fisher raised roughly $30,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a stunning reversal of fortune for this candidate who looked like she had everything going for her,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one place where Hsu suffered was in \u003ca href=\"https://www.annforsfboe.com/endorsements\">endorsements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of them evaporated in the face of her racist comments, and that could have cost her votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mayor London Breed-backed Hsu picked up endorsements from groups that are strong allies of the mayor, like the Chinese American Democratic Club, Edwin M. Lee Asian Pacific Democratic Club, GrowSF and the United Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she failed to pick up endorsements from labor groups and major Democratic clubs like the Alice B. 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Lee said endorsements are important in school board races, which are considered low-information, “down-ballot” races, where voters depend a lot on recommendations from groups instead of on doing research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The local Democratic Party endorsement carries a lot of weight in down-ballot races, such as a school board election. And in this case, clearly it did because Alida Fisher was endorsed and Hsu was not,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Julia McEvoy contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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One Latina student speaking to KQED in August called Hsu’s comments “a slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that controversy, however, some prominent politicians called for forgiveness and grace. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920452/ann-hsu-sfusd-saga-after-racist-statement-whos-pushing-for-her-removal-and-whos-supporting-her\">Mayor London Breed asked\u003c/a>, “How do we come together and make this a teaching moment?” Even Hsu herself said she would conduct “listening sessions and community outreach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But did she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most prominent groups representing Black and Latinx San Franciscans, the NAACP and San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club, said Hsu never reached out to fix the harms she had caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulanda Williams, third vice president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP, said Hsu’s dwindling electoral support may show that San Francisco voters didn’t accept Hsu’s apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Actions speak louder than words,” Williams said. “Hsu was lacking in cultural competency.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/oWAeFHd0M-I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/oWAeFHd0M-I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Ann Hsu’s concession speech in a YouTube video, above.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quincy Yu, Hsu’s campaign spokesperson, said it’s “not true” that Hsu has done no outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, her outreach was out of the spotlight, Yu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has for the last three months been in the community speaking to parents, faith-based organizations and nonprofit organizations. She has not politicized any of this. She has quietly and consistently reached out,” Yu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to name those organizations, Yu said, “I am not at liberty to disclose them. They are faith-based.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the intense scrutiny, early ballot returns showed Hsu as the third-place vote-getter for the San Francisco Board of Education, with three open positions. That changed Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Department of Elections has continued to count provisional ballots turned in the day of the election, and with each passing tally, Hsu’s grip on third place loosened. Monday, that grip slipped completely, and her closest competitor, Alida Fisher, a special education advocate, surpassed her into third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher now appears poised to join the Board of Education, as the pattern of ballot results has only continued in her favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11931650 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg\" alt=\"Alida Fisher speaks into microphone at event\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/1AFBACD6-E56E-4A4A-8624-783F1286C3AF-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District board candidate Alida Fisher speaks at an election night event at El Rio in San Francisco on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whoever joins the Board of Education will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927789/sf-school-board-candidates-try-to-distance-themselves-from-performative-politics-of-recalled-commissioners\">arrive during a time of turmoil and transition\u003c/a>: Students are still lagging in testing after pandemic lockdowns, payroll system errors have deprived many teachers of their salaries, and there’s a national concern for school safety following high-profile school shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is more at stake than just Hsu’s political career: Fisher’s win would tilt the ideological majority of the Board of Education away from supporting Mayor London Breed’s policies. A newly left-leaning board might, for instance, revisit the decision to make Lowell High School merit-based, long a desire of Black students who championed an open lottery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those speaking to KQED said it’s likely that, in the eye of the public, she never recovered from her comments saying Black and brown families do not value education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Fisher reached out to groups representing communities of color. She spoke at length to the local NAACP chapter last month and asked questions to help understand the needs of Black families attending San Francisco schools, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was so impressed with Fisher that, after the visit, she said, “I have far more hope that Fisher is more understanding and aware of Black culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher told KQED, “I don’t want to be the voice of Black families or of Latinx families or Pacific Islander families, but I sure as hell want to elevate their voices. I think that it’s important to have that. It’s important to have those voices represented. And if they’re not members who sit on the board themselves, then whatever I can do to help elevate their experiences and their perspectives, I see that as my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the NAACP, the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club also publicly discussed their disappointment in Hsu’s previous anti-Black and anti-brown comments. Bahlam Vigil, an officer of the club, said that after their public rebuke of Hsu and subsequent invitation to talk, she never responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve tried reaching out to her behind the scenes. We even asked Supervisor Gordon Mar to help. She reached out to us on Twitter, publicly, but she never followed up in private,” Vigil said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to build coalitions that are multicultural,” Vigil added. “We didn’t want to make this about politics, we wanted to make it about healing. We were really worried her comments would continue this divide that has perpetuated among communities of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu, Hsu’s spokesperson, said Hsu had learned much since the comments she made earlier in the year. Black and brown communities are firstly “not monolithic,” she said, and there are transportation issues and other roadblocks that are contributing to truancy among Black and Latinx students that Hsu is eager to help tackle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite what Yu described as quiet outreach, a lack of support from Black and brown San Francisco communities may be reflected as the remaining ballots are tallied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lee, political science lecturer at San Francisco State University, said the neighborhoods that voted strongest for Hsu were ones with the most Asian voters: the Richmond District, the Excelsior, Visitacion Valley and Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those neighborhoods alone weren’t enough to carry Hsu to victory. Her weak showing in more progressive neighborhoods on the eastern side of San Francisco was particularly notable given that Hsu was appointed to the school board, and incumbents are normally hard to topple. But Hsu also out-raised all of her opponents, Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu had more than $93,000 in campaign contributions; Fisher raised roughly $30,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is a stunning reversal of fortune for this candidate who looked like she had everything going for her,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one place where Hsu suffered was in \u003ca href=\"https://www.annforsfboe.com/endorsements\">endorsements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of them evaporated in the face of her racist comments, and that could have cost her votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mayor London Breed-backed Hsu picked up endorsements from groups that are strong allies of the mayor, like the Chinese American Democratic Club, Edwin M. Lee Asian Pacific Democratic Club, GrowSF and the United Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she failed to pick up endorsements from labor groups and major Democratic clubs like the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club or Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and, perhaps most key, the teachers union and the San Francisco Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle also endorsed Breed’s two other appointees but not Hsu, endorsing Fisher instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers union, the United Educators of San Francisco, endorsed only Fisher and Lisa Weissman-Ward, a Breed appointee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu said Hsu tried to spread the word on her campaign and raise funds, but she “did not go after endorsements because, frankly, those organizations had already condemned her without giving her the ability to address the larger issues. I’m sure those endorsements help a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local Democratic Party often swings with San Francisco’s progressives but, for the school board, it endorsed two mayoral appointees — although notably, not Hsu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they also endorsed Fisher. Lee said endorsements are important in school board races, which are considered low-information, “down-ballot” races, where voters depend a lot on recommendations from groups instead of on doing research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The local Democratic Party endorsement carries a lot of weight in down-ballot races, such as a school board election. And in this case, clearly it did because Alida Fisher was endorsed and Hsu was not,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Julia McEvoy contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout the pandemic, public acrimony dogged the San Francisco school board: There was acrimony over renaming schools, acrimony over when to let kids back into classrooms,\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and acrimony over admissions practices at one of SFUSD’s most prestigious high schools, Lowell.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, in February, angry, fed-up voters overwhelmingly removed three commissioners at the center of those controversies from the San Francisco Board of Education in a high-profile recall. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So it stands to reason that most of the six candidates running for those same seats sought to distance themselves from the old school board at a recent forum for parents. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpta.org/guiding-principles/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second District Parent Teacher Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> forum last week, the candidates answered detailed\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">policy questions posed by parents — many candidates voiced support for allowing students to take algebra classes in an earlier year than usual, for instance — but the message behind the message was as obvious as a blaring school bell. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ann Hsu, a tech industry businessperson who was appointed to the board by Mayor London Breed after the recall, plainly laid out those differences.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lisa Weissman-Ward, commissioner, SFUSD Board of Education\"]‘We want to govern, we want to be focused on process. We want the work of the board to be boring. We do not want to be making headlines for performative politics.’[/pullquote]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The school board is shifting to a new way of operating, “where we do not listen to the loudest, or we do not appease the loudest, voice in the room, but we really focus on student outcomes,” Hsu told parents in the forum over Zoom. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu has had \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1554633591933452288\">her own difficult time with loud voices in the room \u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when parents and community members shouted, “Racist!,” at one another during a contentious board vote to admonish Hsu, in August. The successful vote came after she made \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922072/a-slap-in-the-face-sfusd-students-respond-to-ann-hsus-racist-comments\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">racist comments about Black and brown families\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; Hsu later apologized.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Hsu wasn’t alone in delivering the message that the board’s focus needs to change. Lisa Weissman-Ward, an educator at Stanford Law School also appointed to the school board by Breed, took her own jab at the former commissioners.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We want to govern, we want to be focused on process. We want the work of the board to be boring. We do not want to be making headlines for performative politics,” she said. “It doesn’t help our students, it doesn’t help our educators, it doesn’t help our caregivers, doesn’t help our community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In short, she said, she wants to make sure the school district’s budget “has a through line” to improved student academic outcomes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The way the school board ran the district previously “has not worked,” said candidate and commissioner Lainie Motamedi, another Breed appointee. That’s why the current school board made a commitment to spend at least 50% of school board time on student outcomes and student work, she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The previous board spent approximately zero time on that,” Motamedi told parents. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Left unsaid, however, was that many of the so-called “performative” ideas the recalled school board members tackled were pushed heavily by students themselves. The Black Student Union of Lowell High School, for instance, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859065/black-student-union-aims-to-hold-lowell-high-school-accountable\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pushed hard for a lottery system\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, claiming the merit-based admissions policy led the school to educate very few Black students at the prestigious school.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite a public rebuke of the change to Lowell High School’s admissions policy (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Big-votes-on-Lowell-and-Washington-mural-before-17259285.php\">which was ultimately changed back\u003c/a>), equity was top of mind for all the candidates. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Karen Fleshman, a candidate who is a consultant for youth-serving nonprofits in San Francisco, said she wants to be “laser-focused” on equity in schools, helping to create “a sense of belonging” by recruiting teachers from diverse backgrounds to help ground students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have a big challenge with equity in the district going back from the beginning of the district,” Fleshman said, adding that although San Francisco has many job opportunities, “we’re not doing anything to connect and prepare our young people to that labor market.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fleshman said that’s where individualized learning plans come in, to help individual students connect to their career aspirations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Candidate Alida Fisher, a special education advocate, pushed for more recognition around one of the root causes of missing classes: bad transit service. She said that comes directly from parents in a working group aimed at addressing truancy.[aside label='Related Articles' tag='sfusd']\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What we found was Muni, you know, is a huge barrier for a lot of families. Especially post-pandemic, we still have lines that aren’t running at full capacity,” Fisher said.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Many families feel blamed and shamed when the attendance officers are calling home. They’re not saying, ‘How can we help you?’ They’re blaming the families and threatening repercussions.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One voice at the school board candidate forum stood out for not directly addressing remarks that called the old school board into question: Gabriela López. She was one of the three commissioners whom voters recalled, and is running to regain her seat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked by the PTA group how SFUSD builds trust with the community after its recent failures — including a payroll fiasco seeing teachers working without timely paychecks\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lopez walked a tightrope, seemingly addressing the critiques made by the new board commissioners, while not engaging in a tête-à-tête.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I know that in the last couple of years, there’s also been a lot of pain that has led to more mistrust in our school district. And as a former commissioner, my priority was to be in those communities, to hear from the people who are being harmed in bringing those messages and experiences to the school board,” Lopez said. “I also know that I can build on that by continuing to connect with people after harm is done. That’s where we build trust.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And while those payroll issues have garnered many headlines of late, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/09/fixer-hired-for-sfusd-payroll-fiasco-as-teachers-staff-still-feel-the-pain/\">with many condemning district management and warning of teachers suffering deep financial losses\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, at the forum, few of the candidates brought it up at all. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unlike other local races, the Board of Education race is not ranked-choice. 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"content": "\u003cp>Adults, from parents to city officials, have weighed in on San Francisco School Board Commissioner Ann Hsu’s comments disparaging Black and brown families as not valuing their children’s education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the voice of students has been glaringly missing from the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you work for the Board of Education, you shouldn’t be making comments like that,” said Selser Seth, a Black 17-year-old. “And if you’re going to work for the kids, you should work for all of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the San Francisco Board of Education voted unanimously to admonish Hsu for her racist comments. It is also considering an official censure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the board meeting, parents shouted over one another, prompting commissioner Jenny Lam to call for a recess. Black and brown parents yelled “racists!” while Asian parents yelled “support Ann Hsu!”[pullquote size='medium' citation='Briseis Portillo, 16, Salvadoran American']‘It was kind of like a slap in the face.’[/pullquote]Three teenagers who attend San Francisco Unified School District high schools spoke with KQED to share their reactions to Hsu’s comments. Uniformly, the teenagers felt her characterization of Black and Latinx families was simply untrue – especially when it comes to their own families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What did Hsu say?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As part of a school board candidate survey Hsu filled out for a parent advocacy group ahead of the November 2022 election, \u003ca href=\"https://secureservercdn.net/45.40.152.202/o40.3f1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/FORMATTED-Ann-Hsu-English.pdf\">she wrote that Black and brown families do not adequately support their children’s educations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement came in response to a question about how she would improve outcomes among marginalized students in San Francisco. Hsu wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“From my very limited exposure in the past four months to the challenges of educating marginalized students especially in the black and brown community, I see one of the biggest challenges as being the lack of family support for those students. Unstable family environments caused by housing and food insecurity along with lack of parental encouragement to focus on learning cause children to not be able to focus on or value learning. That makes teachers’ work harder because they have to take care of emotional and behavioral issues of students before they can teach them. That is not fair to the teachers.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AnnforSFboe/status/1549501661609021445?t=xQr6BKHrTlnKUeDceV_Yog&s=19\">Hsu apologized for her comments on Twitter\u003c/a> as soon as they surfaced publicly. At last week’s board meeting, she apologized in person and even voted alongside her colleagues for her own admonishment. More than a dozen organizations and city officials have called on Hsu to resign from office. A growing number of organizations and officials, including Mayor London Breed, have publicly said Hsu should remain in office and use the opportunity to grow and learn from her mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Students reflect on Hsu’s comments\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The youth leaders we spoke with work with two organizations: the \u003ca href=\"https://cpasf.org\">Chinese Progressive Association\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://colemanadvocates.org\">Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth\u003c/a>. Neither organization has taken a position on whether Hsu should resign, though Coleman Advocates has issued statements condemning the remarks. The organizations often take their cues from their youth leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each student expressed concerns that harmful stereotypes would influence Hsu’s decision-making on the San Francisco Board of Education, imperiling their peers through bad policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selser Seth wanted to correct the record — Black families absolutely value learning. Her mother cares a lot about education, she says, and always pushes her for high grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth says she enjoys both music and science. She was a DJ spinning tracks for dancers at the Carnaval San Francisco festival in May, and she also shared a story of academic delight — when she recently got to dissect a pregnant shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a scalpel, and we had a little tray, and just cut the stomach and cut the tissues,” she said. She enjoyed learning about the baby shark in a hands-on way, although, she admits, “it was pretty messy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth felt Hsu’s comments not only failed to describe other Black students, but made her feel she had less representation on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briseis Portillo, a 16-year-old Salvadoran American, felt the Latinx community was unjustly judged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of like a slap in the face,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portillo says Hsu understands she was wrong, but it still caused harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think racism should not be tolerated at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portillo said she met Hsu through Coleman Advocates about a week prior to her racist comments surfacing in the public. After they surfaced, students from Coleman Advocates have said they hope their current proposal to allow SFUSD public school students to vote on Board of Education proposals would counterbalance any policy choices Hsu made that would run afoul of Black and Latinx communities.[aside postID='news_11920452']Last, Yvonne Dong, a 17-year-old Asian American of Chinese and Vietnamese descent, worried Hsu may not be able to understand the needs of various communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While she is on the Board of Education, she is able to make a lot of powerful decisions. And people on the board are intended to represent all the communities in San Francisco,” Dong said. “It’s really concerning to know that she would write that when she’s supposed to represent all communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dong recently read \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3bixwrFEPo\">“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paulo Freire\u003c/a>, and says dealing with racism should always involve restorative justice, which means reflection and action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The apology is only part of the process,” she said. “I just feel like it’s only part of the reflection. And there hasn’t been any. There hasn’t been enough action yet to really complete the transformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reflection part, she says, means asking oneself why — why would I do something racist? What are the root causes within myself of these comments?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then action is,” Dong said, “holding yourself accountable to changing your values to help everyone around you and to be more open to other communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman with short black hair and holding a microphone wears a red leather jacket, red sunglasses on top of her head, and a red, yellow and purple scarf.\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724-800x502.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724-1020x640.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724-1536x963.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ann Hsu speaks during a press conference held by the Chinese/API Voter Outreach Taskforce on the steps of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Pushing back on hurtful stereotypes\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dong noted her community wasn’t singled out by Hsu’s comments. Nonetheless, the ongoing controversies at the Board of Education do take their toll on her.[aside postID='news_11907806']“As a student, it’s overwhelming to hear. Like there’s always something on in the news about them,” she said. “It’s hard to trust my future and education with this school board because at this point, it’s hard to figure out what’s really happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the students — Dong and Portillo — agreed they had seen stereotypes at play in their own schools. And they worried Hsu’s views would exacerbate those divisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dong says that, as an Asian person, she has been given some favorable treatment by teachers over her Black and Latinx peers, and often sees racial tensions between ethnic groups in her neighborhood, Visitacion Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely feel like I have more privilege over certain communities,” Dong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portillo said she had a favorable experience at schools that were largely Latinx. But when attending other schools with more mixed populations, she felt like she was often under a microscope due to her ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It kind of feels like your education isn’t valued because you’re always being targeted or you’re always being pushed out,” she said. “Or there’s something always happening instead of actually you getting your education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth didn’t feel as if she’d seen racial stereotypes in her daily life, like the other students we spoke to. But she knows the sting of hate, having been bullied in middle and elementary school by kids who didn’t approve of her being a girl with romantic interest in other girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s me personally, it didn’t affect me as much as it affects the average person,” Seth said, of Hsu’s comments, partially because she’s a person who tends to “go with the flow.” But even though the comments didn’t affect her personally, she said, that doesn’t mean it didn’t affect her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bottom line,” Seth said, “I just think it’s wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last, Yvonne Dong, a 17-year-old Asian American of Chinese and Vietnamese descent, worried Hsu may not be able to understand the needs of various communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While she is on the Board of Education, she is able to make a lot of powerful decisions. And people on the board are intended to represent all the communities in San Francisco,” Dong said. “It’s really concerning to know that she would write that when she’s supposed to represent all communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dong recently read \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3bixwrFEPo\">“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paulo Freire\u003c/a>, and says dealing with racism should always involve restorative justice, which means reflection and action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The apology is only part of the process,” she said. “I just feel like it’s only part of the reflection. And there hasn’t been any. There hasn’t been enough action yet to really complete the transformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reflection part, she says, means asking oneself why — why would I do something racist? What are the root causes within myself of these comments?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then action is,” Dong said, “holding yourself accountable to changing your values to help everyone around you and to be more open to other communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11922097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman with short black hair and holding a microphone wears a red leather jacket, red sunglasses on top of her head, and a red, yellow and purple scarf.\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724-800x502.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724-1020x640.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724-1536x963.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS53041_003_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-e1660091672724.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ann Hsu speaks during a press conference held by the Chinese/API Voter Outreach Taskforce on the steps of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Pushing back on hurtful stereotypes\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dong noted her community wasn’t singled out by Hsu’s comments. Nonetheless, the ongoing controversies at the Board of Education do take their toll on her.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:45 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 3.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday night to officially admonish commissioner Ann Hsu, saying a racist statement she made on a recent candidate questionnaire was “hurtful and perpetuates harmful stereotypes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board wrote that Hsu’s comments, “come at a time when the Board is in the process of reforming its behaviors and processes to produce better outcomes for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emotional meeting prompted an outpouring of comments from many Black, Latinx and Asian families, all of whom expressed hurt and pain over the discussion. At one point during public comment, dueling camps of families shouted “Racist! Racist!” and “Support Ann Hsu!” at each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu voted for her own admonishment. Speaking to the crowd, she said systemic biases need to be overcome, “but canceling one another is not the way to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s condemnation — which falls short of asking Hsu to step down — comes amid a growing chorus of groups, officials and community leaders calling for her resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Hsu’s statement came to light last month, the backlash against her has been swift. But that outcry is also being countered by a significant contingent of voices calling for Hsu to hold on to her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argue that Hsu, a leading advocate of the recall campaign that ousted three school-board members in February, has already publicly apologized for the comments and should be allowed to learn from her self-acknowledged biases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is keeping track of the fast-growing list of organizations and officials standing behind or against Hsu in yet another incident in a long string of recent school-board controversies that has divided this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skip to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#who-wants-hsu-to-resign\">Who wants Hsu to resign?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#who-wants-hsu-to-remain\">Who wants her to stay put?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: Organizations and officials who weigh in on Hsu will be added to this list as we get wind of them. If you know of a group or person we’re missing, email \u003ca href=\"mailto:jrodriguez@kqed.org\">jrodriguez@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu came under fire for her recently unearthed written remarks that reinforced racist stereotypes about Black and brown families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a \u003ca href=\"https://secureservercdn.net/45.40.152.202/o40.3f1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/FORMATTED-Ann-Hsu-English.pdf\">school board candidate survey\u003c/a> she filled out for a parent advocacy group, ahead of the November 2022 election, Hsu wrote that Black and brown families do not adequately support their children’s educations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement came in response to a question about how she would improve outcomes among marginalized students in San Francisco. Hsu wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>From my very limited exposure in the past four months to the challenges of educating marginalized students especially in the black and brown community, I see one of the biggest challenges as being the lack of family support for those students. Unstable family environments caused by housing and food insecurity along with lack of parental encouragement to focus on learning cause children to not be able to focus on or value learning. That makes teachers’ work harder because they have to take care of emotional and behavioral issues of students before they can teach them. That is not fair to the teachers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Hsu \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907806/mayor-breed-appoints-3-sfusd-parents-to-fill-school-board-seats-vacated-after-historic-recall\">was one of three new board members appointed \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907806/mayor-breed-appoints-3-sfusd-parents-to-fill-school-board-seats-vacated-after-historic-recall\">by Mayor London Breed\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907806/mayor-breed-appoints-3-sfusd-parents-to-fill-school-board-seats-vacated-after-historic-recall\"> in March\u003c/a> after San Francisco voters overwhelmingly removed Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga from the city’s Board of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Hsu ostensibly still plans to run in November for a full term on the board, that path was called into question Tuesday when her social media accounts appeared to be deleted, and a campaign website for a coalition of candidates she is part of was taken offline. \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/07/ann-hsu-laine-motamedi-lisa-weissman-ward-all-in-for-sf-kids/\">Reporting by Mission Local\u003c/a> indicates the change was due to the other candidates seeking to distance themselves from her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu apologized for her remarks shortly after they were revealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to understand and address a serious problem and seek solutions, and in doing so I said things that perpetuated biases already in the system,” Hsu wrote on Twitter, adding, “I made a mistake, and I am deeply sorry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED reached out for an interview, Hsu shared her previously tweeted statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As public scrutiny of Hsu intensifies, other statements she has made also have recently been questioned as racially insensitive, including one made during a May school board meeting, in which she said her son enjoyed online learning \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BivettB/status/1550894694615306240\">since he didn’t have to deal with “riff-raff.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, though, the question over whether Hsu should stay or go is complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former supervisor and mayoral candidate Jane Kim told KQED that other Asian immigrants may gain an important perspective from seeing Hsu, as a public official, acknowledge her mistake and learn from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, for members of the Chinese community that share her perspective, it would be really helpful for them to watch her go through a public process where she grows from this moment,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the other hand, Kim acknowledged that Hsu is an appointed representative who sets policy for children, including Black children, and understands why many want her to step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"sf-school-board\"]“Once you’re a representative,” Kim said, “we have to have a good sense of what we tolerate as the beginning point for you to represent us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sometime entrepreneur who emigrated from China and worked for 20 years in the tech sector, Hsu now describes herself as a full-time family caregiver who has lived in the Richmond District for more than 30 years. Her twin sons attend Galileo Academy of Science and Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an odd twist of fate that it was the successful campaign to recall three school board members that galvanized Hsu’s run for a seat in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins, who is Black, faced backlash from Asian communities for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">series of unearthed tweets\u003c/a> she wrote in 2016 — discovered and publicized by a parent activist who opposed her policies — that disparaged Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins later explained she was trying to broach how people of color can remain divided. But many cited her failure to offer a straightforward apology as a political misstep that contributed to her downfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, whose political fortunes rose from the ouster of Collins and two other board members, now faces a similar line of fire.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comparison has been heavily noted in conversations on social media and in community meetings, as residents question the kind of message it will send if an Asian American school board member who makes disparaging statements against Black and brown people is offered amnesty, even after her Black counterpart was recalled for similarly prejudiced remarks against Asian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many elected officials in the city, the decision over whether to support Hsu or call for her resignation is a difficult balancing act. That’s particularly true for members of the Board of Supervisors, and their challengers in Districts 4 and 6 — representing South of Market, downtown and the Sunset District — who are on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, the Asian electorate in San Francisco is far larger than the Black one, which some political insiders said may affect the political calculus of certain elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"who-wants-hsu-to-resign\">\u003c/a>Who wants Hsu to resign?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The SF NAACP\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, members of the group voted 105-0 in favor of Hsu’s resignation. Yulanda Williams, the group’s third vice president, told KQED that Hsu’s statement shook her in a personal way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For this lady to make these types of comments is insulting. It’s harassment. It’s racist,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement, Williams said, also upended the Black-Asian community-building efforts she had been working on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu’s comments “drive a wedge in the entire process that I have been working on with many strong Asian leaders and avid supporters of unity in our community that we all want,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1551378773513097216\">In a statement sent last week\u003c/a>, shortly after meeting with Hsu, the SF NAACP said, “Her comments indicate a profound disconnect between Hsu and the Black community and blame the \u003cem>effects\u003c/em> of systemic racism on the \u003cem>targets\u003c/em> of that racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hsu’s explanation to us concerning her statements was that she has very limited knowledge of Black people, and that she is a scientist by profession, not a politician. These reasons not only ring hollow but are illogical on their face. Scientists gather empirical evidence to disprove a theory before stating it as fact. Yet she chose to make shockingly false statements about Black students and families while having no meaningful knowledge about them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The SF Latinx Democratic Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Twitter, the group said: “Ann Hsu ignores the Latino community, doesn’t even attempt to contact us after racist remarks are made. Hsu herself said she is ‘committed to listening, learning and growing as a person.’ Then why did she ignore the Latino community on outreach? Ann Hsu’s silence and lack of reaching out to specifically brown, Latino families clearly demonstrates her continued biases to the Latino community. The SFLDC, our community leaders and organizations have received no communication, both public and private, on setting up time for discussions to apologize and listen to the Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This unwillingness to even attempt to engage our community demonstrates an even further inability to represent Latino students in SFUSD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1551378773513097216\">Also via Twitter\u003c/a>: “Commissioner Ann Hsu’s racist assertion that Black and Brown families do not ‘focus on or value learning’ is inexcusable, and she must resign. We appreciate her service, apology, and acknowledgment of her own bias and ignorance; and that bias and ignorance is disqualifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Commissioner Hsu cannot expect the communities she has denigrated to wait for her to unlearn her biases while representing them. She cannot continue to serve a public that has not elected her, and whose trust she has now betrayed. This is yet another damaging distraction for a struggling district. We hope Commissioner Hsu puts students first to do the right thing and resign. If she wishes to serve, she must run and re-earn the trust of the public. She cannot and must not continue in an unelected position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The San Francisco Democratic Party\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democratic Party board voted late Wednesday night, July 27, to put the party on record asking Hsu to resign. In the \u003ca href=\"https://app.box.com/s/sawt6229gay1fcw961p60x18w9dmp8ji\">resolution it voted to approve\u003c/a>, the board states, “RESOLVED, That the San Francisco Democratic Party stands firmly with the Black community in ensuring that the San Francisco Board of Education is free of racial bias and animus, and urges Board Member Ann Hsu to resign immediately and withdraw her candidacy for San Francisco Board of Education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Labor Council\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council represents 100 affiliate unions, including more than 100,000 working people in the city. \u003ca href=\"https://sflaborcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/07-22-22-KTavaglioneStatement-HsuShouldResign.pdf\">On its website\u003c/a>, the group said: “The San Francisco Labor Council is calling upon School Board Member Ann Hsu to step down from her newly appointed position. Fresh off the recall from earlier this year, San Francisco cannot afford to get tied up in another racist scandal in our School District. Hsu, who was a leader in the recall effort, must abide by the same principles that she used against former school board members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asian and Pacific Islander Council\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, which represents more than 50 Asian and Pacific Islander organizations in the city, has received some blowback from individual members who didn’t agree with its statement, made via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/api_council/status/1550299213505761281\">Twitter\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Asian and Pacific Islander Council of San Francisco condemns the careless and racist remarks that have surfaced from (Ann Hsu) … as an organization that stands in solidarity with communities of color, these comments are unacceptable and unbecoming of a leader who is in the position of education and influencing the futures of our diverse student population. We acknowledge that an apology has been issued by Commissioner Hsu, but do not believe that it absolves the Commissioner from the harm that has been caused. We respectfully ask Commissioner Hsu to resign from her position as School Board member.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice is one of two prominent LGBTQ political clubs in San Francisco and a regularly sought-after endorsement in elections. The club’s statement, via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AliceLGBTQDems/status/1550220687570116611\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “Racism, Xenophobia, and other discriminatory language and behavior is simply unacceptable. To have this situation come up again from the governing body overseeing the well-being of San Francisco’s children is appalling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We join the community voices in respectfully asking School Board Commissioner Ann Hsu to step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t need more examples of harmful behavior and language being accepted in this country, and certainly not in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enough is enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Black Wallstreet\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its public response, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFBlackWallSt/status/1550292439675445248\">the organization said\u003c/a>: “We believe Hsu’s statements were informed by her inherent racist biases and reflected her true beliefs regarding 36 percent of Black and Brown students attending school in the San Francisco Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beliefs like Hsu’s are how slavery and Jim Crow laws that dehumanized Black people and enforced segregation and inequality were able to prevail for over 400 years in America. In the last 50 years, communities of color have experienced astronomical financial and educational gains as a result of the Civil Rights Movement led by the Black Community seeking better access to quality education and living wages. Hsu’s statements were offensive and erased our community’s history of fighting for quality education for our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Black & Asian Alliance Network\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, founded by a person of \u003ca href=\"https://thegrio.com/2021/05/28/megan-thomas-and-johnathan-gibbs-on-being-black-asian-in-2021/?jwsource=cl\">mixed Black and Asian background\u003c/a>, issued its statement via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BAANorg/status/1552068403451543555\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “We recognize the many people who Hsu and her supporters continually erase with conversations that put non-engagement from parents and issues of poverty at the feet of ‘Black and Brown’ students. Operating from a framework that divides ‘Black and Brown’ students from Asian students, many of whom also live in poverty, many of whom also live in environments where there is a lack of parental leadership, is operating directly from the book of the Model Minority Myth and White Supremacy. It is racist, full stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Young Democrats\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its statement, via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFYD/status/1550532522471174145\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “We join @SFBlackWallSt, @SFLatinxDems, @api_council, @harveymilkclub, @AliceLGBTQDems, Coleman Advocates, @UESF, @shamannwalton, @conniechansf, @DeanPreston, & community members across SF in strongly condemning BOE Commissioner Ann Hsu’s racist remarks & urging her to resign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UESF President Cassondra Curiel said: “It is sad and stunning that someone who is supposed to represent the interests of all San Francisco public school students responded in a written candidate survey with racist and offensive comments. Ann Hsu has no place in the education of our children and must resign and get out of the school board race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Rose Pak Democratic Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The club advocates for issues in Asian communities and beyond in San Francisco. Via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RosePakDemClub/status/1552076352823562241?s=20&t=JyasMda9tZA6fJ7ksf8cKA\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “In cases like this, RPDC must listen and center our conversation around the groups harmed–Black and Brown communities. They have spoken clearly … A year ago, we wrote in a statement that, “the Chinese community continues to be painted with a single brush stroke by those who refuse to acknowledge the nuances of our existence.” The same can be said about our Black and Brown families. Hsu has regretfully shown herself to be an active participant in this narrative. The Rose Pak Democratic Club has no choice but to formally call on Commissioner Ann Hsu to resign from the San Francisco Board of Education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>African American Parent Advisory Council\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parent group’s statement, via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BivettB/status/1550272794616688640?s=20&t=EVF7QwXUPcn4fD_zUErZlQ\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “How can we as Black families trust the Board to revise the district’s values and goals with our children in mind when members so boldly spew hateful and harmful ideas about students and families with no response from the rest of the Board? If the Board allows racism within its own ranks to stand with only a Twitter apology as acknowledgment, what message does that send throughout the entire district?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/2022_07_21_Statement_on_Commissioner_Ann_Hsu%27s_Remarks.pdf\">at the Board of Supervisors\u003c/a>, Walton said Hsu should resign: “This is flat out wrong and racist to perpetuate harmful stereotypes on Black and Brown students and their families who have been disenfranchised by systemic racism for decades. It is disheartening that someone in a position responsible for making decisions for 50,000 children lead with racism and stereotypical characterizations. There’s no learning curve for how to treat people and respect people of different cultures when you’re in a leadership\u003cbr>\nposition as a Commissioner on the Board of Education. Bottom line, these statements are reflective of how a person really feels and it is evident that anyone with these beliefs should not be responsible for making decisions for our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, who represents the Richmond District, where Hsu lives, wrote \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/conniechansf/status/1550152832480776192\">on Twitter\u003c/a>: “I am disappointed and disheartened by Commissioner Ann Hsu’s anti-Black and racist statements made and reported in at least two occasions by the media. Her words perpetuate racist stereotypes and further divide communities of color in a time when we need to stand united against hate. I thank Commissioner Hsu for her service and respectfully ask her to step down from her position on the Board of Education so that we can get back on track to ensure all students and their families can receive the quality, equitable public education they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1550520310419492869\">Twitter, Preston said\u003c/a>: “I join my colleagues and many others in unequivocally condemning appointed school board member Ann Hsu’s racist comments. Her written comments suggesting that Black and brown parents do not value learning show prejudice, ignorance, and a lack of fitness to serve the families and students who rely on our public schools. Her apology was an important step in addressing the harm she has caused for the community. However, if this is how she views Black and brown families, it is hard to see how she can be an effective member of our Board of Education. I join my colleagues @shamannwalton and @conniechansf in urging appointee Ann Hsu to resign from the School Board. I further urge her to drop out of the race for School Board in this election cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ahsha_Safai/status/1550624601780019201\">a statement on Twitter\u003c/a>, Safaí said: “[Ann Hsu] should resign from the SF BOE. Her racist statements about Black and Brown children and their parents perpetuates decades long stereotypes. We need leaders who respect and are willing to learn from all communities. Let us remember – serving on the BOE is a privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BART Board Member Bevan Dufty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BevanDufty/status/1551333825128562689\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “I believe that [Hsu] should resign in the interest of current and future @SFUSD African American & Latino families. Her answer on a campaign questionnaire was deliberate and revealed a deep ignorance that can’t be glossed over by a select handful of staged appearances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Board of Education candidate Alida Fisher\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This local parent is running for SF Board of Education. Her statement, via her website: “The conversation triggered by Commissioner Hsu’s racist statement is taking us backwards to the toxic divisions that we experienced a year ago. The statement showed a lack of understanding of our communities in San Francisco. Racial and ethnic groups are again being pitted against each other. This needs to stop now for the health and wellbeing of our children and youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Berniecrats\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local chapter of the national Berniecrats group wrote publicly: “Hsu’s statement perpetuates racist stereotypes of Black and Brown familial situations and values. This reflects a pattern of behavior that Hsu has exhibited, both prior to and during her appointed term on the Board of Education, a deep-seated bias that, we believe in good faith, cannot be unlearned expediently enough to avoid voting on future School Board motions to the detriment of our Black and Brown communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"who-wants-hsu-to-remain\">\u003c/a>Who wants Hsu to remain in office?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Chinese Parent Advisory Council\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CPACSF/status/1549971631560224768\">statement on Twitter\u003c/a>, the group said: “CPAC recognizes systemic, social & economic factors that prevent Black & Brown students from achieving education potential. Commissioner Hsu’s wordings were not chosen w care & caused harm. She has shown leadership in her unconditional apology & commitment to repairing that harm. We are confident that she will take this opportunity to leverage her unique perspective & reaffirmed equity focus in fighting for all students in closing the achievement gaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a number of public statements, Breed has defended Hsu and said this should be a teaching moment. The mayor made the point, publicly and repeatedly, that Hsu made a genuine apology, unlike Collins, and that this should serve as a learning opportunity for the rookie politician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lihanlihan/status/1550527537997963265\">SF Standard\u003c/a>, Breed said: “It was very disappointing and hurtful to the Latino and African American communities, her comments. But what I appreciated about what she did, she immediately, unlike other people who have been in the position and made comments that were hurtful to communities, she came forward and apologized. And apologized for her comments and how it impacted other communities, and she went further than that and said she wants to use this as an opportunity to have a better understanding. What I am hopeful is that we don’t just dismiss this and say ‘she needs to resign.’ How do we come together and make this a teaching moment? How do we prevent this from becoming politically divisive?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a group petition: The Chinese American Democratic Club, Friends of Lowell Foundation, SFCAUSE, United Peace Collaborative, 300+ individual signatories\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A petition supporting Hsu was signed by more than 300 individuals, including former San Francisco Democratic Party chair Mary Jung, former San Francisco supervisor Tony Hall, former redistricting commissioner Lily Ho, and by numerous Asian San Francisco groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That petition reads, “We understand that she made a mistake. She is human. But we also know that she did not do so out of any malice. She has apologized and taken responsibility for her words. She has vowed to make amends by listening, improving her own understanding, and taking critical action at the Board of Education to help all students. Ann has vowed to help bridge the communities within San Francisco. We believe, as Mayor Breed has said, that this can be a ‘teaching moment.’ Ann has already begun the work to make it one. We do not believe that Ann should resign. We do not accept that as an appropriate action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Guardians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, now under a new name, played a central role in the February San Francisco Board of Education recall election, moving to oust the commissioners in that election. Via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfguardians/status/1550644839624019968?s=21&t=NYrrW_-iEavraKjtuhzVqQ\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “We don’t expect our leaders to be perfect but we do expect them to acknowledge, listen & grow when they make mistakes. Ann has demonstrated that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 96% of SF Guardians voted to support Ann, Lainie & Lisa for the school board. And we’ll be campaigning to elect them this fall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Supervisor Gordon Mar\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar, who represents the heavily Asian Sunset District and other westside neighborhoods, is running for reelection this November, and is therefore walking a fine line on this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar told KQED, by text message: “I spoke with Commissioner Hsu this weekend and believe that she is sincere in her apology, to learn from her mistakes and to repair the harm her insensitive and racist comments have had on African American and Latinx families. In several months, voters will decide whether she’s qualified to continue serving in this important role, so I’m calling for her to proactively follow through on her commitments to African American and Latinx families rather than for her resignation at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Board of Supervisors candidate Leanna Louie\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louie was a central figure in pushing for last year’s recall of three San Francisco school board members. She also helped drive the recall of former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, arguing he did not make the Asian community safe. Now she’s channeling that political energy to run for District 4 supervisor against incumbent Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louie told KQED, by text message: “Ann Hsu should not resign. She was speaking based on the statistics of academics reports provided by the SFUSD. There was NO intent to hurt anyone. There is too much spin and not enough understanding from the people who are calling her to resign. Ann is genuinely working hard to find solutions for better education for every student. Let’s work together, not against each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED asked Louie if she believed Hsu’s comments were rooted in fact, she replied, “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Board of Supervisors candidate Honey Mahogany\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany, a former legislative aide to now-Assemblymember Matt Haney, is also running in November’s election to represent San Francisco’s District 6, which includes South of Market, downtown and Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany told KQED, via text message: “While I am hurt and upset by Ann Hsu’s words, I also think we all need time to process this and figure out a way to bring our communities together. Too many times I have seen our divisions exploited and made worse instead of doing the work to bring us together. I think there is a teachable moment here and a restorative justice approach that can be taken. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Entertainment Commissioner Cyn Wang\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cynyurita/status/1549859525649244161\">Twitter\u003c/a>, Wang said: “[Ann Hsu’s] answer to @SFParents questionnaire perpetuated racist stereotypes & deserves scrutiny. I’m encouraged by her apology + acknowledgment of systemic racism & cmmitmt to learning, but she must re-earn trust & demonstrate how she will show up for black & brown families. I also want to acknowledge that [Hsu] and her colleagues have made tremendous progress in centering student outcomes and improving governance over the last few months. I believe she’s earned the opportunity to re-earn that trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu came under fire for her recently unearthed written remarks that reinforced racist stereotypes about Black and brown families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a \u003ca href=\"https://secureservercdn.net/45.40.152.202/o40.3f1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/FORMATTED-Ann-Hsu-English.pdf\">school board candidate survey\u003c/a> she filled out for a parent advocacy group, ahead of the November 2022 election, Hsu wrote that Black and brown families do not adequately support their children’s educations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement came in response to a question about how she would improve outcomes among marginalized students in San Francisco. Hsu wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>From my very limited exposure in the past four months to the challenges of educating marginalized students especially in the black and brown community, I see one of the biggest challenges as being the lack of family support for those students. Unstable family environments caused by housing and food insecurity along with lack of parental encouragement to focus on learning cause children to not be able to focus on or value learning. That makes teachers’ work harder because they have to take care of emotional and behavioral issues of students before they can teach them. That is not fair to the teachers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Hsu \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907806/mayor-breed-appoints-3-sfusd-parents-to-fill-school-board-seats-vacated-after-historic-recall\">was one of three new board members appointed \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907806/mayor-breed-appoints-3-sfusd-parents-to-fill-school-board-seats-vacated-after-historic-recall\">by Mayor London Breed\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907806/mayor-breed-appoints-3-sfusd-parents-to-fill-school-board-seats-vacated-after-historic-recall\"> in March\u003c/a> after San Francisco voters overwhelmingly removed Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga from the city’s Board of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Hsu ostensibly still plans to run in November for a full term on the board, that path was called into question Tuesday when her social media accounts appeared to be deleted, and a campaign website for a coalition of candidates she is part of was taken offline. \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/07/ann-hsu-laine-motamedi-lisa-weissman-ward-all-in-for-sf-kids/\">Reporting by Mission Local\u003c/a> indicates the change was due to the other candidates seeking to distance themselves from her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu apologized for her remarks shortly after they were revealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to understand and address a serious problem and seek solutions, and in doing so I said things that perpetuated biases already in the system,” Hsu wrote on Twitter, adding, “I made a mistake, and I am deeply sorry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED reached out for an interview, Hsu shared her previously tweeted statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As public scrutiny of Hsu intensifies, other statements she has made also have recently been questioned as racially insensitive, including one made during a May school board meeting, in which she said her son enjoyed online learning \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BivettB/status/1550894694615306240\">since he didn’t have to deal with “riff-raff.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many, though, the question over whether Hsu should stay or go is complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former supervisor and mayoral candidate Jane Kim told KQED that other Asian immigrants may gain an important perspective from seeing Hsu, as a public official, acknowledge her mistake and learn from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly, for members of the Chinese community that share her perspective, it would be really helpful for them to watch her go through a public process where she grows from this moment,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the other hand, Kim acknowledged that Hsu is an appointed representative who sets policy for children, including Black children, and understands why many want her to step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Her twin sons attend Galileo Academy of Science and Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an odd twist of fate that it was the successful campaign to recall three school board members that galvanized Hsu’s run for a seat in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins, who is Black, faced backlash from Asian communities for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">series of unearthed tweets\u003c/a> she wrote in 2016 — discovered and publicized by a parent activist who opposed her policies — that disparaged Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins later explained she was trying to broach how people of color can remain divided. But many cited her failure to offer a straightforward apology as a political misstep that contributed to her downfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, whose political fortunes rose from the ouster of Collins and two other board members, now faces a similar line of fire.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comparison has been heavily noted in conversations on social media and in community meetings, as residents question the kind of message it will send if an Asian American school board member who makes disparaging statements against Black and brown people is offered amnesty, even after her Black counterpart was recalled for similarly prejudiced remarks against Asian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many elected officials in the city, the decision over whether to support Hsu or call for her resignation is a difficult balancing act. That’s particularly true for members of the Board of Supervisors, and their challengers in Districts 4 and 6 — representing South of Market, downtown and the Sunset District — who are on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, the Asian electorate in San Francisco is far larger than the Black one, which some political insiders said may affect the political calculus of certain elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"who-wants-hsu-to-resign\">\u003c/a>Who wants Hsu to resign?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The SF NAACP\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, members of the group voted 105-0 in favor of Hsu’s resignation. Yulanda Williams, the group’s third vice president, told KQED that Hsu’s statement shook her in a personal way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For this lady to make these types of comments is insulting. It’s harassment. It’s racist,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement, Williams said, also upended the Black-Asian community-building efforts she had been working on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu’s comments “drive a wedge in the entire process that I have been working on with many strong Asian leaders and avid supporters of unity in our community that we all want,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1551378773513097216\">In a statement sent last week\u003c/a>, shortly after meeting with Hsu, the SF NAACP said, “Her comments indicate a profound disconnect between Hsu and the Black community and blame the \u003cem>effects\u003c/em> of systemic racism on the \u003cem>targets\u003c/em> of that racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hsu’s explanation to us concerning her statements was that she has very limited knowledge of Black people, and that she is a scientist by profession, not a politician. These reasons not only ring hollow but are illogical on their face. Scientists gather empirical evidence to disprove a theory before stating it as fact. Yet she chose to make shockingly false statements about Black students and families while having no meaningful knowledge about them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The SF Latinx Democratic Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Twitter, the group said: “Ann Hsu ignores the Latino community, doesn’t even attempt to contact us after racist remarks are made. Hsu herself said she is ‘committed to listening, learning and growing as a person.’ Then why did she ignore the Latino community on outreach? Ann Hsu’s silence and lack of reaching out to specifically brown, Latino families clearly demonstrates her continued biases to the Latino community. The SFLDC, our community leaders and organizations have received no communication, both public and private, on setting up time for discussions to apologize and listen to the Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This unwillingness to even attempt to engage our community demonstrates an even further inability to represent Latino students in SFUSD.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1551378773513097216\">Also via Twitter\u003c/a>: “Commissioner Ann Hsu’s racist assertion that Black and Brown families do not ‘focus on or value learning’ is inexcusable, and she must resign. We appreciate her service, apology, and acknowledgment of her own bias and ignorance; and that bias and ignorance is disqualifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Commissioner Hsu cannot expect the communities she has denigrated to wait for her to unlearn her biases while representing them. She cannot continue to serve a public that has not elected her, and whose trust she has now betrayed. This is yet another damaging distraction for a struggling district. We hope Commissioner Hsu puts students first to do the right thing and resign. If she wishes to serve, she must run and re-earn the trust of the public. She cannot and must not continue in an unelected position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The San Francisco Democratic Party\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democratic Party board voted late Wednesday night, July 27, to put the party on record asking Hsu to resign. In the \u003ca href=\"https://app.box.com/s/sawt6229gay1fcw961p60x18w9dmp8ji\">resolution it voted to approve\u003c/a>, the board states, “RESOLVED, That the San Francisco Democratic Party stands firmly with the Black community in ensuring that the San Francisco Board of Education is free of racial bias and animus, and urges Board Member Ann Hsu to resign immediately and withdraw her candidacy for San Francisco Board of Education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Labor Council\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council represents 100 affiliate unions, including more than 100,000 working people in the city. \u003ca href=\"https://sflaborcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/07-22-22-KTavaglioneStatement-HsuShouldResign.pdf\">On its website\u003c/a>, the group said: “The San Francisco Labor Council is calling upon School Board Member Ann Hsu to step down from her newly appointed position. Fresh off the recall from earlier this year, San Francisco cannot afford to get tied up in another racist scandal in our School District. Hsu, who was a leader in the recall effort, must abide by the same principles that she used against former school board members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asian and Pacific Islander Council\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, which represents more than 50 Asian and Pacific Islander organizations in the city, has received some blowback from individual members who didn’t agree with its statement, made via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/api_council/status/1550299213505761281\">Twitter\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Asian and Pacific Islander Council of San Francisco condemns the careless and racist remarks that have surfaced from (Ann Hsu) … as an organization that stands in solidarity with communities of color, these comments are unacceptable and unbecoming of a leader who is in the position of education and influencing the futures of our diverse student population. We acknowledge that an apology has been issued by Commissioner Hsu, but do not believe that it absolves the Commissioner from the harm that has been caused. We respectfully ask Commissioner Hsu to resign from her position as School Board member.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice is one of two prominent LGBTQ political clubs in San Francisco and a regularly sought-after endorsement in elections. The club’s statement, via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AliceLGBTQDems/status/1550220687570116611\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “Racism, Xenophobia, and other discriminatory language and behavior is simply unacceptable. To have this situation come up again from the governing body overseeing the well-being of San Francisco’s children is appalling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We join the community voices in respectfully asking School Board Commissioner Ann Hsu to step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don’t need more examples of harmful behavior and language being accepted in this country, and certainly not in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enough is enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Black Wallstreet\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its public response, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFBlackWallSt/status/1550292439675445248\">the organization said\u003c/a>: “We believe Hsu’s statements were informed by her inherent racist biases and reflected her true beliefs regarding 36 percent of Black and Brown students attending school in the San Francisco Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beliefs like Hsu’s are how slavery and Jim Crow laws that dehumanized Black people and enforced segregation and inequality were able to prevail for over 400 years in America. In the last 50 years, communities of color have experienced astronomical financial and educational gains as a result of the Civil Rights Movement led by the Black Community seeking better access to quality education and living wages. Hsu’s statements were offensive and erased our community’s history of fighting for quality education for our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Black & Asian Alliance Network\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, founded by a person of \u003ca href=\"https://thegrio.com/2021/05/28/megan-thomas-and-johnathan-gibbs-on-being-black-asian-in-2021/?jwsource=cl\">mixed Black and Asian background\u003c/a>, issued its statement via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BAANorg/status/1552068403451543555\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “We recognize the many people who Hsu and her supporters continually erase with conversations that put non-engagement from parents and issues of poverty at the feet of ‘Black and Brown’ students. Operating from a framework that divides ‘Black and Brown’ students from Asian students, many of whom also live in poverty, many of whom also live in environments where there is a lack of parental leadership, is operating directly from the book of the Model Minority Myth and White Supremacy. It is racist, full stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Young Democrats\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its statement, via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFYD/status/1550532522471174145\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “We join @SFBlackWallSt, @SFLatinxDems, @api_council, @harveymilkclub, @AliceLGBTQDems, Coleman Advocates, @UESF, @shamannwalton, @conniechansf, @DeanPreston, & community members across SF in strongly condemning BOE Commissioner Ann Hsu’s racist remarks & urging her to resign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UESF President Cassondra Curiel said: “It is sad and stunning that someone who is supposed to represent the interests of all San Francisco public school students responded in a written candidate survey with racist and offensive comments. Ann Hsu has no place in the education of our children and must resign and get out of the school board race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Rose Pak Democratic Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The club advocates for issues in Asian communities and beyond in San Francisco. Via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RosePakDemClub/status/1552076352823562241?s=20&t=JyasMda9tZA6fJ7ksf8cKA\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “In cases like this, RPDC must listen and center our conversation around the groups harmed–Black and Brown communities. They have spoken clearly … A year ago, we wrote in a statement that, “the Chinese community continues to be painted with a single brush stroke by those who refuse to acknowledge the nuances of our existence.” The same can be said about our Black and Brown families. Hsu has regretfully shown herself to be an active participant in this narrative. The Rose Pak Democratic Club has no choice but to formally call on Commissioner Ann Hsu to resign from the San Francisco Board of Education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>African American Parent Advisory Council\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parent group’s statement, via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BivettB/status/1550272794616688640?s=20&t=EVF7QwXUPcn4fD_zUErZlQ\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “How can we as Black families trust the Board to revise the district’s values and goals with our children in mind when members so boldly spew hateful and harmful ideas about students and families with no response from the rest of the Board? If the Board allows racism within its own ranks to stand with only a Twitter apology as acknowledgment, what message does that send throughout the entire district?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/2022_07_21_Statement_on_Commissioner_Ann_Hsu%27s_Remarks.pdf\">at the Board of Supervisors\u003c/a>, Walton said Hsu should resign: “This is flat out wrong and racist to perpetuate harmful stereotypes on Black and Brown students and their families who have been disenfranchised by systemic racism for decades. It is disheartening that someone in a position responsible for making decisions for 50,000 children lead with racism and stereotypical characterizations. There’s no learning curve for how to treat people and respect people of different cultures when you’re in a leadership\u003cbr>\nposition as a Commissioner on the Board of Education. Bottom line, these statements are reflective of how a person really feels and it is evident that anyone with these beliefs should not be responsible for making decisions for our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, who represents the Richmond District, where Hsu lives, wrote \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/conniechansf/status/1550152832480776192\">on Twitter\u003c/a>: “I am disappointed and disheartened by Commissioner Ann Hsu’s anti-Black and racist statements made and reported in at least two occasions by the media. Her words perpetuate racist stereotypes and further divide communities of color in a time when we need to stand united against hate. I thank Commissioner Hsu for her service and respectfully ask her to step down from her position on the Board of Education so that we can get back on track to ensure all students and their families can receive the quality, equitable public education they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1550520310419492869\">Twitter, Preston said\u003c/a>: “I join my colleagues and many others in unequivocally condemning appointed school board member Ann Hsu’s racist comments. Her written comments suggesting that Black and brown parents do not value learning show prejudice, ignorance, and a lack of fitness to serve the families and students who rely on our public schools. Her apology was an important step in addressing the harm she has caused for the community. However, if this is how she views Black and brown families, it is hard to see how she can be an effective member of our Board of Education. I join my colleagues @shamannwalton and @conniechansf in urging appointee Ann Hsu to resign from the School Board. I further urge her to drop out of the race for School Board in this election cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Ahsha_Safai/status/1550624601780019201\">a statement on Twitter\u003c/a>, Safaí said: “[Ann Hsu] should resign from the SF BOE. Her racist statements about Black and Brown children and their parents perpetuates decades long stereotypes. We need leaders who respect and are willing to learn from all communities. Let us remember – serving on the BOE is a privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BART Board Member Bevan Dufty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BevanDufty/status/1551333825128562689\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “I believe that [Hsu] should resign in the interest of current and future @SFUSD African American & Latino families. Her answer on a campaign questionnaire was deliberate and revealed a deep ignorance that can’t be glossed over by a select handful of staged appearances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Board of Education candidate Alida Fisher\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This local parent is running for SF Board of Education. Her statement, via her website: “The conversation triggered by Commissioner Hsu’s racist statement is taking us backwards to the toxic divisions that we experienced a year ago. The statement showed a lack of understanding of our communities in San Francisco. Racial and ethnic groups are again being pitted against each other. This needs to stop now for the health and wellbeing of our children and youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Berniecrats\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local chapter of the national Berniecrats group wrote publicly: “Hsu’s statement perpetuates racist stereotypes of Black and Brown familial situations and values. This reflects a pattern of behavior that Hsu has exhibited, both prior to and during her appointed term on the Board of Education, a deep-seated bias that, we believe in good faith, cannot be unlearned expediently enough to avoid voting on future School Board motions to the detriment of our Black and Brown communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"who-wants-hsu-to-remain\">\u003c/a>Who wants Hsu to remain in office?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Chinese Parent Advisory Council\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CPACSF/status/1549971631560224768\">statement on Twitter\u003c/a>, the group said: “CPAC recognizes systemic, social & economic factors that prevent Black & Brown students from achieving education potential. Commissioner Hsu’s wordings were not chosen w care & caused harm. She has shown leadership in her unconditional apology & commitment to repairing that harm. We are confident that she will take this opportunity to leverage her unique perspective & reaffirmed equity focus in fighting for all students in closing the achievement gaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a number of public statements, Breed has defended Hsu and said this should be a teaching moment. The mayor made the point, publicly and repeatedly, that Hsu made a genuine apology, unlike Collins, and that this should serve as a learning opportunity for the rookie politician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lihanlihan/status/1550527537997963265\">SF Standard\u003c/a>, Breed said: “It was very disappointing and hurtful to the Latino and African American communities, her comments. But what I appreciated about what she did, she immediately, unlike other people who have been in the position and made comments that were hurtful to communities, she came forward and apologized. And apologized for her comments and how it impacted other communities, and she went further than that and said she wants to use this as an opportunity to have a better understanding. What I am hopeful is that we don’t just dismiss this and say ‘she needs to resign.’ How do we come together and make this a teaching moment? How do we prevent this from becoming politically divisive?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a group petition: The Chinese American Democratic Club, Friends of Lowell Foundation, SFCAUSE, United Peace Collaborative, 300+ individual signatories\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A petition supporting Hsu was signed by more than 300 individuals, including former San Francisco Democratic Party chair Mary Jung, former San Francisco supervisor Tony Hall, former redistricting commissioner Lily Ho, and by numerous Asian San Francisco groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That petition reads, “We understand that she made a mistake. She is human. But we also know that she did not do so out of any malice. She has apologized and taken responsibility for her words. She has vowed to make amends by listening, improving her own understanding, and taking critical action at the Board of Education to help all students. Ann has vowed to help bridge the communities within San Francisco. We believe, as Mayor Breed has said, that this can be a ‘teaching moment.’ Ann has already begun the work to make it one. We do not believe that Ann should resign. We do not accept that as an appropriate action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Guardians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, now under a new name, played a central role in the February San Francisco Board of Education recall election, moving to oust the commissioners in that election. Via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfguardians/status/1550644839624019968?s=21&t=NYrrW_-iEavraKjtuhzVqQ\">Twitter\u003c/a>: “We don’t expect our leaders to be perfect but we do expect them to acknowledge, listen & grow when they make mistakes. Ann has demonstrated that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 96% of SF Guardians voted to support Ann, Lainie & Lisa for the school board. And we’ll be campaigning to elect them this fall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Supervisor Gordon Mar\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar, who represents the heavily Asian Sunset District and other westside neighborhoods, is running for reelection this November, and is therefore walking a fine line on this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar told KQED, by text message: “I spoke with Commissioner Hsu this weekend and believe that she is sincere in her apology, to learn from her mistakes and to repair the harm her insensitive and racist comments have had on African American and Latinx families. In several months, voters will decide whether she’s qualified to continue serving in this important role, so I’m calling for her to proactively follow through on her commitments to African American and Latinx families rather than for her resignation at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Board of Supervisors candidate Leanna Louie\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louie was a central figure in pushing for last year’s recall of three San Francisco school board members. She also helped drive the recall of former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, arguing he did not make the Asian community safe. Now she’s channeling that political energy to run for District 4 supervisor against incumbent Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louie told KQED, by text message: “Ann Hsu should not resign. She was speaking based on the statistics of academics reports provided by the SFUSD. There was NO intent to hurt anyone. There is too much spin and not enough understanding from the people who are calling her to resign. Ann is genuinely working hard to find solutions for better education for every student. Let’s work together, not against each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED asked Louie if she believed Hsu’s comments were rooted in fact, she replied, “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Board of Supervisors candidate Honey Mahogany\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany, a former legislative aide to now-Assemblymember Matt Haney, is also running in November’s election to represent San Francisco’s District 6, which includes South of Market, downtown and Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahogany told KQED, via text message: “While I am hurt and upset by Ann Hsu’s words, I also think we all need time to process this and figure out a way to bring our communities together. Too many times I have seen our divisions exploited and made worse instead of doing the work to bring us together. I think there is a teachable moment here and a restorative justice approach that can be taken. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Entertainment Commissioner Cyn Wang\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cynyurita/status/1549859525649244161\">Twitter\u003c/a>, Wang said: “[Ann Hsu’s] answer to @SFParents questionnaire perpetuated racist stereotypes & deserves scrutiny. I’m encouraged by her apology + acknowledgment of systemic racism & cmmitmt to learning, but she must re-earn trust & demonstrate how she will show up for black & brown families. I also want to acknowledge that [Hsu] and her colleagues have made tremendous progress in centering student outcomes and improving governance over the last few months. I believe she’s earned the opportunity to re-earn that trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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