Campaign to Recall Three San Francisco School Board Members Vastly Outspending Opposition
San Francisco’s School Board Recall Election
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How We Got Here: The Road to the Recall Election of 3 SF School Board Members
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Faced With Recall, Faauuga Moliga Distances Himself From Fellow SF School Board Members
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The Concerned Parents committee spent $42,840 to air ads on the TV station KTSF, along with $11,013 to purchase print ads in the Sing Tao Daily and World Journal newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main campaign opposing the recall has received its largest donations from SEIU 1021 ($6,500), a union representing public sector workers, and the United Educators of San Francisco ($5,000), the city’s teachers union. Our Revolution, a political group aligned with Vermont Sen. 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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#inscribo\">\u003cstrong>Avanza a la sección con detalles sobre cómo registrarse como no ciudadano para la elección revocatoria de la junta escolar.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902654/sf-school-board-recall-how-to-vote-as-a-noncitizen-parent\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algunos residentes de San Francisco que no son ciudadanos podrán \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sf-school-board-recall\">votar en la elección revocatoria que se aproxima de los miembros del consejo escolar Alison Collins, Gabriela López y Faauuga Moliga\u003c/a> (\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sólo\u003c/span> en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gracias a una ley que fue aprobada por votantes en 2016, los padres y tutores legales de estudiantes en el Distrito Escolar Unificado de San Francisco pueden participar en las elecciones del consejo escolar, independientemente de su estatus migratorio. Para que un padre pueda votar, debe tener un hijo/hija de 19 años o menos\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En octubre de 2021, la Junta de Supervisores de la ciudad hizo que la ley fuera permanente para todas las futuras votaciones del consejo escolar, permitiendo a los padres no ciudadanos, como Angela Zhou, votar en las elecciones de febrero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Angela Zhou, una registrante no ciudadana\"]‘Estoy muy contenta de tener la oportunidad de votar. Será la primera vez que vote en Estados Unidos y me siento muy afortunad.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Soy residente en San Francisco desde hace unos 20 años, pero aún no soy ciudadana estadounidense”, dijo Zhou, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\">en una rueda de prensa celebrada por un grupo de voluntarios enfocado en el registro de votantes asiáticos\u003c/a> (\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sólo\u003c/span> en inglés). “Estoy muy contenta de tener la oportunidad de votar. Será la primera vez que vote en Estados Unidos y me siento muy afortunada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La idea de limitar el derecho de voto de algunos no ciudadanos está adquiriendo impulso: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/12/1063539443/nyc-granted-noncitizens-the-right-to-vote-in-local-elections-the-idea-isnt-so-ne\">Nueva York permitirá a los residentes legales votar en las elecciones municipales\u003c/a> (\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sólo\u003c/span> en inglés), y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901435/give-us-a-chance-non-citizens-in-san-jose-could-potentially-be-allowed-to-vote\">San José está estudiando la idea\u003c/a> (\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sólo\u003c/span> en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los grupos comunitarios y de defensa de los inmigrantes de San Francisco ya se están movilizando para que los padres no ciudadanos se registren. Hasta el martes, una cifra récord de 122 personas no ciudadanos se han registrado para votar en la revocación de la Junta de Educación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A continuación, las respuestas a algunas preguntas comunes sobre el programa de San Francisco. Haga clic en los enlaces de abajo para ir a una sección específica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#revocatoria\">\u003cstrong>¿Qué es la elección revocatoria de la junta escolar de SF?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#correo\">\u003cstrong>¿Por qué he recibido información por correo sobre la votación cuando no soy ciudadano?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#inscribo\">\u003cstrong>¿Cómo me inscribo para votar a través de este programa?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#ciudadanos\">\u003cstrong>¿Los votos de los no ciudadanos se cuentan de forma diferente a los de los ciudadanos?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#ICE\">\u003cstrong>¿Adónde va a parar esta información? ¿Se compartirá mi información con otras agencias gubernamentales como ICE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"revocatoria\">\u003c/a>¿Qué es la elección revocatoria de la junta escolar de SF?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El 15 de febrero, los votantes decidirán si quieren remover de su cargo a tres comisionados de la Junta de Educación de San Francisco: Alison Collins, Gabriela López y Faauuga Moliga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los votantes pueden optar por destituir a uno, dos, los tres o ninguno de estos funcionarios. Si se destituye a alguno de los tres miembros del consejo, la alcaldesa de San Francisco, London Breed, nombraría a su sustituto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La votación será la primera revocación de un funcionario de San Francisco en casi 40 años, después de que los organizadores que apoyan la revocación presentaran el año pasado más de las 51,325 firmas necesarias para forzar la votación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11900721/how-we-got-here-the-road-to-the-recall-election-of-3-sf-school-board-members\">Lea más sobre la cronología que condujo a esta elección revocatoria del Consejo Escolar de San Francisco, y lo que está en juego\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés).\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"correo\">\u003c/a>¿Por qué he recibido información por correo sobre la votación cuando no soy ciudadano?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Antes de cada elección, el Departamento Electoral de San Francisco envía información sobre el voto a todos los hogares de la ciudad. Estos correos, que contienen información sobre el voto de los residentes no ciudadanos, se envían a las casas y apartamentos independientemente de quiénes residan en ellos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cualquiera que viva en San Francisco, recibe un correo antes de las elecciones, indicando cómo pueden, si no son ciudadanos, obtener más información y participar en las elecciones”, dijo John Arntz, director del departamento. “No sabemos quiénes son no ciudadanos, así que no nos ponemos en contacto con ellos individualmente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arntz dijo que su departamento espera concienciar sobre el voto de los no ciudadanos mediante anuncios en los periódicos locales. Un grupo de organizaciones sin fines de lucro ha formado la coalición multilingüe Immigrant Parent Voting Collaborative, la cual trabaja para dar a conocer a los no ciudadanos su derecho al voto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuestro trabajo continúa asegurando que las familias inmigrantes conozcan y tomen sus propias decisiones sobre el ejercicio de este nuevo derecho de voto permanente”, dijo Eva Poon, gerente de políticas del grupo ‘Chinese for Affirmative Action’, en una declaración celebrando la decisión de hacer permanente el voto de los no ciudadanos.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"inscribo\">\u003c/a>¿Cómo me inscribo para votar a través de este programa?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Asegúrese de rellenar y enviar un formulario de inscripción para votantes no ciudadanos. El formulario está disponible en línea en \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_SP.pdf\">español\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_ENG.pdf\">inglés\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_CH.pdf\">chino\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_FI.pdf\">tagalo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_Arabic.pdf\">árabe\u003c/a> y \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/inscripci%C3%B3n-y-votaci%C3%B3n-de-personas-sin-ciudadan%C3%ADa\">más de 40 idiomas\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/formularios-y-recursos\">La lista completa de formularios que puede imprimir está disponible aquí\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El formulario de inscripción le pide que comparta su nombre y dirección, e incluye preguntas opcionales donde puede compartir su correo electrónico, número de teléfono y país de nacimiento. No es necesario que comparta su estatus migratorio ni información sobre sus hijos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una vez que haya rellenado el formulario, puede presentarlo en persona en la oficina del Departamento de Elecciones en el Ayuntamiento o enviarlo por correo (a través del Servicio Postal de EE.UU.) a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Elections\u003cbr>\nCity Hall\u003cbr>\n1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 48\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco, CA 94102\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La fecha límite de inscripción es el 31 de enero. Si se le pasó la fecha, no se preocupe, todavía puede registrarse, pero ya no tendrá la opción de hacerlo por correo. Tendrá que rellenar el formulario y presentarlo en persona en el Ayuntamiento o en la mesa electoral más cercana.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ciudadanos\">\u003c/a>¿Los votos de los no ciudadanos se cuentan de forma diferente a los de los ciudadanos?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No, los votos de los no ciudadanos se incluyen en el recuento total de las elecciones al consejo escolar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En su mayoría, es la misma elección, los no ciudadanos experimentan la misma elección que otros votantes”, dijo Arntz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hay algunas pequeñas diferencias en la forma en que se administran las elecciones para los no ciudadanos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estos votantes se registran en una base de datos local, separada del sistema estatal que sólo contiene la información de los votantes que son ciudadanos. Y los no ciudadanos reciben una guía del votante única, escrita en cuatro idiomas (inglés, español, chino y tagalo) y una papeleta que contiene sólo las contiendas del consejo escolar.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ICE\">\u003c/a>¿Adónde va a parar esta información? ¿Se compartirá mi información con otras agencias gubernamentales como el ICE?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Una vez que haya rellenado su formulario de inscripción de votante y lo haya enviado al Departamento de Elecciones, su información se almacenará en la base de datos de este organismo. Según Arntz, la ciudad mantiene una base de datos separada donde guarda la información de registro de los no ciudadanos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No podemos ingresar a los no ciudadanos en la base de datos estatal”, dijo, pero añadió que la base de datos de no ciudadanos debe seguir las mismas normas sobre quién tiene acceso a su contenido. Las agencias gubernamentales, las campañas políticas y los periodistas pueden solicitar información específica sobre los votantes registrados, como direcciones o información demográfica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arntz reconoce que esto puede preocupar a algunas personas, el hecho de que agencias federales como el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) puedan acceder a los datos personales de personas indocumentadas que se registraron en San Francisco para votar. Sin embargo, señala que existe un sistema que controla quién puede acceder a esta información.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si alguien nos pidiera específicamente la información de registro [de los no ciudadanos], en realidad consultaríamos primero a la oficina del abogado de la ciudad antes de hacer algo”, dijo. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Soy residente en San Francisco desde hace unos 20 años, pero aún no soy ciudadana estadounidense”, dijo Zhou, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\">en una rueda de prensa celebrada por un grupo de voluntarios enfocado en el registro de votantes asiáticos\u003c/a> (\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sólo\u003c/span> en inglés). “Estoy muy contenta de tener la oportunidad de votar. Será la primera vez que vote en Estados Unidos y me siento muy afortunada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La idea de limitar el derecho de voto de algunos no ciudadanos está adquiriendo impulso: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/12/1063539443/nyc-granted-noncitizens-the-right-to-vote-in-local-elections-the-idea-isnt-so-ne\">Nueva York permitirá a los residentes legales votar en las elecciones municipales\u003c/a> (\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sólo\u003c/span> en inglés), y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901435/give-us-a-chance-non-citizens-in-san-jose-could-potentially-be-allowed-to-vote\">San José está estudiando la idea\u003c/a> (\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sólo\u003c/span> en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los grupos comunitarios y de defensa de los inmigrantes de San Francisco ya se están movilizando para que los padres no ciudadanos se registren. Hasta el martes, una cifra récord de 122 personas no ciudadanos se han registrado para votar en la revocación de la Junta de Educación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A continuación, las respuestas a algunas preguntas comunes sobre el programa de San Francisco. Haga clic en los enlaces de abajo para ir a una sección específica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#revocatoria\">\u003cstrong>¿Qué es la elección revocatoria de la junta escolar de SF?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#correo\">\u003cstrong>¿Por qué he recibido información por correo sobre la votación cuando no soy ciudadano?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#inscribo\">\u003cstrong>¿Cómo me inscribo para votar a través de este programa?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#ciudadanos\">\u003cstrong>¿Los votos de los no ciudadanos se cuentan de forma diferente a los de los ciudadanos?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#ICE\">\u003cstrong>¿Adónde va a parar esta información? ¿Se compartirá mi información con otras agencias gubernamentales como ICE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"revocatoria\">\u003c/a>¿Qué es la elección revocatoria de la junta escolar de SF?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El 15 de febrero, los votantes decidirán si quieren remover de su cargo a tres comisionados de la Junta de Educación de San Francisco: Alison Collins, Gabriela López y Faauuga Moliga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los votantes pueden optar por destituir a uno, dos, los tres o ninguno de estos funcionarios. Si se destituye a alguno de los tres miembros del consejo, la alcaldesa de San Francisco, London Breed, nombraría a su sustituto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La votación será la primera revocación de un funcionario de San Francisco en casi 40 años, después de que los organizadores que apoyan la revocación presentaran el año pasado más de las 51,325 firmas necesarias para forzar la votación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11900721/how-we-got-here-the-road-to-the-recall-election-of-3-sf-school-board-members\">Lea más sobre la cronología que condujo a esta elección revocatoria del Consejo Escolar de San Francisco, y lo que está en juego\u003c/a> (sólo en inglés).\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"correo\">\u003c/a>¿Por qué he recibido información por correo sobre la votación cuando no soy ciudadano?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Antes de cada elección, el Departamento Electoral de San Francisco envía información sobre el voto a todos los hogares de la ciudad. Estos correos, que contienen información sobre el voto de los residentes no ciudadanos, se envían a las casas y apartamentos independientemente de quiénes residan en ellos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cualquiera que viva en San Francisco, recibe un correo antes de las elecciones, indicando cómo pueden, si no son ciudadanos, obtener más información y participar en las elecciones”, dijo John Arntz, director del departamento. “No sabemos quiénes son no ciudadanos, así que no nos ponemos en contacto con ellos individualmente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arntz dijo que su departamento espera concienciar sobre el voto de los no ciudadanos mediante anuncios en los periódicos locales. Un grupo de organizaciones sin fines de lucro ha formado la coalición multilingüe Immigrant Parent Voting Collaborative, la cual trabaja para dar a conocer a los no ciudadanos su derecho al voto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuestro trabajo continúa asegurando que las familias inmigrantes conozcan y tomen sus propias decisiones sobre el ejercicio de este nuevo derecho de voto permanente”, dijo Eva Poon, gerente de políticas del grupo ‘Chinese for Affirmative Action’, en una declaración celebrando la decisión de hacer permanente el voto de los no ciudadanos.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"inscribo\">\u003c/a>¿Cómo me inscribo para votar a través de este programa?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Asegúrese de rellenar y enviar un formulario de inscripción para votantes no ciudadanos. El formulario está disponible en línea en \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_SP.pdf\">español\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_ENG.pdf\">inglés\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_CH.pdf\">chino\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_FI.pdf\">tagalo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_Arabic.pdf\">árabe\u003c/a> y \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/inscripci%C3%B3n-y-votaci%C3%B3n-de-personas-sin-ciudadan%C3%ADa\">más de 40 idiomas\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/formularios-y-recursos\">La lista completa de formularios que puede imprimir está disponible aquí\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El formulario de inscripción le pide que comparta su nombre y dirección, e incluye preguntas opcionales donde puede compartir su correo electrónico, número de teléfono y país de nacimiento. No es necesario que comparta su estatus migratorio ni información sobre sus hijos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una vez que haya rellenado el formulario, puede presentarlo en persona en la oficina del Departamento de Elecciones en el Ayuntamiento o enviarlo por correo (a través del Servicio Postal de EE.UU.) a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Elections\u003cbr>\nCity Hall\u003cbr>\n1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 48\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco, CA 94102\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La fecha límite de inscripción es el 31 de enero. Si se le pasó la fecha, no se preocupe, todavía puede registrarse, pero ya no tendrá la opción de hacerlo por correo. Tendrá que rellenar el formulario y presentarlo en persona en el Ayuntamiento o en la mesa electoral más cercana.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ciudadanos\">\u003c/a>¿Los votos de los no ciudadanos se cuentan de forma diferente a los de los ciudadanos?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>No, los votos de los no ciudadanos se incluyen en el recuento total de las elecciones al consejo escolar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En su mayoría, es la misma elección, los no ciudadanos experimentan la misma elección que otros votantes”, dijo Arntz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hay algunas pequeñas diferencias en la forma en que se administran las elecciones para los no ciudadanos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estos votantes se registran en una base de datos local, separada del sistema estatal que sólo contiene la información de los votantes que son ciudadanos. Y los no ciudadanos reciben una guía del votante única, escrita en cuatro idiomas (inglés, español, chino y tagalo) y una papeleta que contiene sólo las contiendas del consejo escolar.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ICE\">\u003c/a>¿Adónde va a parar esta información? ¿Se compartirá mi información con otras agencias gubernamentales como el ICE?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Una vez que haya rellenado su formulario de inscripción de votante y lo haya enviado al Departamento de Elecciones, su información se almacenará en la base de datos de este organismo. Según Arntz, la ciudad mantiene una base de datos separada donde guarda la información de registro de los no ciudadanos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No podemos ingresar a los no ciudadanos en la base de datos estatal”, dijo, pero añadió que la base de datos de no ciudadanos debe seguir las mismas normas sobre quién tiene acceso a su contenido. Las agencias gubernamentales, las campañas políticas y los periodistas pueden solicitar información específica sobre los votantes registrados, como direcciones o información demográfica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arntz reconoce que esto puede preocupar a algunas personas, el hecho de que agencias federales como el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) puedan acceder a los datos personales de personas indocumentadas que se registraron en San Francisco para votar. Sin embargo, señala que existe un sistema que controla quién puede acceder a esta información.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si alguien nos pidiera específicamente la información de registro [de los no ciudadanos], en realidad consultaríamos primero a la oficina del abogado de la ciudad antes de hacer algo”, dijo. ICE podría solicitar esta información, pero Arntz dice que nunca ha recibido una solicitud de esta agencia desde que la ciudad amplió la elegibilidad de los votantes en 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Además, la oficina del abogado de la ciudad publicó un memorando el 20 de enero, defendiendo la legalidad de dejar que los padres no ciudadanos voten en las elecciones de la junta escolar, afirmando que, “las elecciones de la junta escolar son para un propósito local, distinto de una elección para un cargo federal…los votantes no ciudadanos no pueden, y no votan en ninguna otra contienda electoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/soytapatia\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The effort to recall three San Francisco Board of Education commissioners has divided the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on the take, the recall is a coup attempt by a mob of venture capitalists and moneyed moms; a righteous crusade to save the city’s marginalized children run by a bootstrapping crew of political newbies; or a misguided effort to exorcize the demons of the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort to oust school board members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga — the first recall effort to make it onto the city’s ballot in almost four decades — is a uniquely San Franciscan edition of the ire directed at school boards across the country. Parents have been pushed to the brink by COVID-era stresses, and many have felt abandoned by their public institutions — and are hungry for accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should Collins, López and Moliga be held responsible for the disarray largely wrought by the pandemic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, anger over the handling of education during the pandemic launched a parent advocacy movement that surfaced the recall effort. That push has been fueled by long-simmering tensions, including a battle over who should have access to the city’s premier public high school and a years-old racial justice effort to rename certain schools — all of which have been highlighted by detractors as evidence of the school board’s ineptitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prolonged debacle has garnered national media attention and hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations in support of the recall. Politicians have piled on. There have been lawsuits, allegations of racism and even death threats. And now, finally, it’s almost time to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots will be mailed Jan. 12. To help you understand how we got to this point, here’s a timeline of key events that have led to the Feb. 15 recall election. Good luck, voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/faauuga-e1637364441573.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11896856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/faauuga-e1637364441573.jpeg\" alt=\"SF Mayor London Breed faces a man in a suit holding up his right hand.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1406\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed appoints Faauuga Moliga to the SF Board of Education on Oct. 15, 2018, on the campus of the June Jordan School for Equity. Breed has since supported the effort to recall Moliga, who is now the board's vice president. \u003ccite>(Courtesy \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1051912735196250112\">London Breed/Twitter\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 22, 2018\u003c/strong>: School Board Resolution No. 184-10A1, “In Support of a Formal Process in the Renaming of San Francisco Unified School District Schools,” is \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=ANVP8B5C815A\">unanimously adopted by board commissioners\u003c/a>. Written in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., the resolution calls for the school renaming process to be led by a blue-ribbon panel selected by the superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 15, 2018\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-appoints-faauuga-moliga-san-francisco-unified-school-district-board\">Mayor London Breed appoints Faauuga Moliga\u003c/a> to the school board to fill a seat vacated by Hydra Mendoza-McDonnell. Breed has since announced her support for recalling Moliga, as well as fellow board members Alison Collins and Gabriela López, and will select their replacements if the effort to oust them is successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 6, 2018\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-school-board-election-Collins-Lopez-and-13369546.php\">Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga are elected\u003c/a> to the school board. The three, all people of color, have since focused much of their policymaking on the district’s historically underserved students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>June 25, 2019\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-school-board-votes-to-destroy-14050025.php\">school board votes to paint over a controversial mural\u003c/a> at Washington High School. The 1936 \"Life of Washington\" mural, by Victor Arnautoff, had been criticized for its derogatory depictions of Native Americans and African Americans. The decision comes after a community advisory committee — consisting of local Native American community members, students, school representatives, district representatives, local artists and historians — recommends permanently removing the offensive content. But the board’s decision triggers a backlash from the school’s alumni association, art historians and local preservationists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 13, 2019\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-school-board-votes-to-destroy-14050025.php\">board reverses course on the Washington High mural\u003c/a>, voting 4-3 to cover the painting rather than permanently remove it. Board President Stevon Cook and board members Rachel Norton, Jenny Lam and Faauuga Moliga vote to cover the mural, while Alison Collins, Mark Sanchez and Gabriela López vote against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg\" alt=\"People take photos of a mural.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the public snap pictures of the controversial 'Life of Washington' mural during viewing hours at George Washington High School. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 16, 2020\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/schools-will-close-students-3-weeks\">SFUSD schools close\u003c/a> due to the onset of the COVID pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Summer 2020\u003c/strong>: A parental group called Decreasing the Distance, which forms to pressure the district to reopen schools, begins holding rallies and lobbying local and state elected officials. The group eventually evolves into the San Francisco Parent Coalition, laying the organizational groundwork to propel the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>June 24, 2020\u003c/strong>: In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the school board unanimously passes a resolution limiting police presence on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>July 15, 2020\u003c/strong>: SFUSD announces, per Superintendent Vince Matthews's recommendation, that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-confirms-it-will-begin-school-year-distance-learning\">classes for the 2020-21 school year will begin remotely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 24, 2020\u003c/strong>: About a month after the \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-announces-next-phase-reopening-begin-monday\">state moves San Francisco into the “red” reopening tier\u003c/a>, allowing for the resumption of limited capacity TK-sixth grade in-person learning, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-shares-planning-process-return-person-learning\">district shares an initial reopening plan\u003c/a>. Under the plan, the city must meet certain public health indicators and have measures in place, including a COVID testing strategy, staff training and labor agreements. Once met, SFUSD says it will apply to the city to offer in-person classes for priority student populations.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11894065,news_11897089,news_11892743\"]\u003cstrong>Oct. 21, 2020\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/board-education-approves-lowell-high-school-admissions-change-incoming-class-fall-2021\">board adopts a change to a lottery-based admissions process\u003c/a> at Lowell High School for the 2021-22 school year only, approving \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/lowell-high-school-admissions-change-incoming-class-fall-2021\">a policy presented by Matthews\u003c/a>. With standardized testing and letter grades halted because of the pandemic, district officials say it's not possible to carry out the normal admissions process at Lowell. The elite high school’s merit-based admissions system has for decades been the subject of controversy, and the board's decision stokes anger among some parents and helps galvanize recall supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 23, 2020\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-bloody-glove-and-swastikas-SF-school-board-15676326.php\">Racist and threatening social media posts\u003c/a> attacking board members López and Collins appear online in response to the board’s unanimous vote to temporarily halt merit-based admissions at Lowell. Elected officials gather to denounce the harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 10, 2020\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/BV7UJT7C54B0/%24file/Presentation%20To%20BOE_School%20Names%20Panel%20Update.pdf\">School Names Advisory Committee provides an update\u003c/a> to the school board, including a list of 44 school sites identified for possible renaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 18, 2020\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/sfusd-updates-timeline-person-learning\">district pushes back its Jan. 25 target date to reopen\u003c/a> the first 12 schools for in-person instruction because an agreement with labor unions hasn't yet been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 4, 2021\u003c/strong>: A \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgRX68QeYT7C01jyfNfEXeIloxJgtZAd/view\">survey of SFUSD families\u003c/a> finds that 57% of respondents plan to return their children to in-person learning once it is offered. But those rates vary significantly by race/ethnicity, with 80% of white, 62% of Black, 61% of Latino and 36% of Asian families opting to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 20, 2021\u003c/strong>: Students and staff at \u003ca href=\"https://thelowell.org/9736/features/looking-back-and-moving-forward-on-racial-equity-at-lowell/\">Lowell High School are exposed to racist, antisemitic and pornographic content\u003c/a> during a school-wide online anti-racism lesson. In response, the school's \u003ca href=\"https://lowell-blackstudentunion.medium.com/lowell-bsu-2020-2021-demands-339494e24641\">Black Student Union leaders issue a set of 23 demands\u003c/a> aimed at creating a safe environment for Lowell’s underrepresented students. The first demand calls for the school board to pass a resolution permanently ending merit-based admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11899779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg\" alt='A young woman looks at the camera wearing a purple sweatshirt that says, &outclass of 21\" with a raised fist in place of the number 1.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district, stands outside her school in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 26, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school board \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/SF-Board-of-Education-Advances-Plan-to-Rename-Schools\">votes to move ahead with renaming 44 sites\u003c/a>. The plan calls for the committee to review new names by April 19 and then make recommendations to the board. Commissioner Kevine \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BW6NYK613C77\">Boggess is the only dissenter\u003c/a>. Mayor Breed criticizes the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 2, 2021\u003c/strong>: School board commissioners Collins, López and Matt Alexander and student delegates Shavonne Hines-Foster and Kathya Correa Almanza \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BXR4HA0B9CC0\">introduce a resolution\u003c/a> that would permanently end the merit-based admissions system at Lowell High School and replace it with the same lottery system used at the district’s comprehensive high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 3, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2021/02/03/herrera-sues-school-board-and-district-to-implement-real-reopening-plan/\">City Attorney Dennis Herrera sues the school district\u003c/a> and its board, alleging they have failed to come up with a reopening plan that meets state requirements. Three days later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-unions-reach-tentative-agreement-health-and-safety-standards-person-learning\">SFUSD and labor unions reach a tentative agreement\u003c/a> on the health and safety standards for in-person learning. Still, on Feb. 11, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2021/02/11/herrera-files-for-emergency-court-order-to-open-sf-public-schools/\">Herrera files an emergency court order\u003c/a> to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 9, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BW6P3X614632\">board votes to permanently end merit-based admissions at Lowell High School\u003c/a>. Commissioners Lam and Boggess vote against the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 19, 2021\u003c/strong>: Parents Autumn Looijen and Siva Raj launch a campaign committee in support of recalling López, Collins and Moliga — the only three commissioners who have served on the school board long enough to face a recall challenge, per city election rules. (Leaders of the effort say they would recall all seven board members if they could.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Autumn_Siva_petitions_credit_Recall_SF_School_Board-1-scaled-e1635468698126.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11894302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Autumn_Siva_petitions_credit_Recall_SF_School_Board-1-scaled-e1635468698126.jpeg\" alt=\"A man and a woman, smiling and arm in arm, stand at the corner of two walls stacked with election filing boxes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Looijen, left, and Siva Raj, co-founders of the Recall SF School Board campaign, stand in front of boxes filled with signed petitions to put the effort on the ballot. \u003ccite>(Recall SF School Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recall opponents brand the couple interlopers because Looijen’s children attend Los Altos schools, while Raj and his children only moved to the city from Pleasanton months before initiating the recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 21, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/S-F-school-board-president-Renamings-are-on-15967923.php\">In an opinion piece in The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, López, who recently became school board president, says the board will put the school renaming effort on hold to prioritize reopening classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: SFUSD announces\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863665/questions-linger-as-san-francisco-schools-aim-to-reopen-next-month\"> an agreement with the United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a> to resume in-person learning on April 12 for some of the district’s youngest students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 18, 2021\u003c/strong>: Attorney Paul Scott, representing high school alumni associations and others, \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Alumni-v.-SFUSD.pdf\">sues the school board \u003c/a>over its decision to rename 44 schools, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Did-S-F-school-board-s-renaming-of-44-schools-15938584.php\">following through on an earlier, February threat\u003c/a>. The same day, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SFSchoolNaming-ORDER.pdf\">orders the district to either withdraw its renaming resolution\u003c/a> or show good cause for why it has not done so at a hearing set for May 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 19, 2021\u003c/strong>: A growing number of students, community members and local leaders begin \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/SFUSD-school-board-member-criticized-for-racist-16039069.php\">calling for school board vice president Alison Collins to resign\u003c/a> after the discovery of a series of tweets she wrote in 2016 disparaging Asian Americans. The tweets are resurfaced and circulated by recall supporter and Lowell alum Diane Yap, who herself has \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/upzonethememes/status/1374136766802718720\">come under fire for past comments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_7815-scaled-e1617305062188.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_7815-scaled-e1617305062188.jpg\" alt=\"A woman standing in front of microphones at a news conference.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner Alison Collins addresses her supporters at a rally in San Francisco on March 31, 2021. \u003ccite>(MJ Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school board \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BYMMM75BCEF6\">votes to strip Collins of her role as vice president\u003c/a>. Commissioners Lam and Moliga, who authored the resolution, call for her to resign, saying she has failed to take responsibility for the harm she caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 31, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/SF-school-board-member-Alison-Collins-sues-16068075.php\">Collins sues the school district\u003c/a> and fellow board members for $87 million, claiming they unlawfully retaliated against her for the 2016 tweets and violated her free speech rights. She ultimately drops the lawsuit in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 1, 2021\u003c/strong>: The “Committee to Support the Recall of Board of Education Commissioners, Lopez, Collins, and Moliga” (later renamed \"Recall School Board Members Lopez, Collins, & Moliga\") begins circulating petitions to qualify the effort for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-superintendent-announces-decision-postpone-retirement-until-june-30-2022\">Matthews announces his decision to postpone his retirement\u003c/a> until June 30, 2022. The \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BYMM8S599F9A\">conditions of his staying on\u003c/a> are laid out in a new contract approved by the board on April 20 that includes a requirement that it follow its own rules and stay focused on reopening. Recall proponents argue that replacing the three board members is key because the school board will select the next superintendent.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11896759,news_11893795,news_11896685\"]\u003cstrong>April 6, 2021\u003c/strong>: The board \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/BZPR896CB91E/%2524file/Second%2520Amended%2520Resolution%2520Re%2520Renaming%2520Schools.pdf\">votes to rescind its decision to rename 44 schools\u003c/a>, citing the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 7, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sf-board-education-commits-returning-all-students-full-time-person-learning-fall-2021\">The board votes for all SFUSD students\u003c/a> to have the option to return to full-time in-person school starting the first day of the 2021-22 academic school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 12, 2021\u003c/strong>: Students in pre-K through second grade \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869003/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-some-san-francisco-kids-return-to-in-person-school\">begin returning to the classroom\u003c/a>, with third, fourth and fifth graders starting a week later. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-resume-high-school-athletics-programs-april-12\">High school athletics resume.\u003c/a> New York City schools had begun opening seven months earlier, while Chicago schools started two months before. Frustration among some parents over the pace of reopening in San Francisco is central to the recall push. On April 26, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-welcomes-back-secondary-students-focal-populations\">2,000 middle and high school students in certain populations\u003c/a> return to in-person learning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873384/a-lot-of-people-are-unhappy-about-sfusd-plan-to-bring-high-school-seniors-back-to-class\">with some high schoolers joining in mid-May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 23, 2021\u003c/strong>: Lowell alums and other groups that oppose the move to lottery-based admissions \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/S-F-school-board-sued-over-controversial-change-16125125.php\">sue the school board\u003c/a>, alleging it voted in violation of the Brown Act, a state law requiring public access to local government agency meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: The campaign supporting the recall receives its first donation of at least $100. Previously, the campaign limited donations to under $100 in order to, they say, democratize their campaign and limit record-keeping responsibilities. In late August, venture capitalist Arthur Rock \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894065/sf-school-board-recall-funded-mostly-by-local-donors-with-venture-capitalists-topping-the-list\">contributes $49,500 to the pro-recall campaign committee\u003c/a>, the largest donation up to that point. Rock has contributed to organizations with ties to charter schools, including political advocacy arms of the California Charter Schools Association, and the EdVoice for the Kids political action committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sacks, a fellow venture capitalist, also chips in $49,500 for the recall. He previously contributed $180,000 to the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom and hosted a fundraiser in San Francisco for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Critics of the recall seize on the Rock and Sacks donations, labeling the campaign a coup attempt bankrolled by politically motivated outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black mask kneels down next to a small girl wearing a blue mask who is holding a poster that reads \"no to recall!\"' width=\"1200\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School Board President Gabriela López poses for a photo with a young supporter at the launch event for the No School Board Recalls campaign on Nov. 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(https://noschoolboardrecall.org/)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>July 27, 2021\u003c/strong>: A judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/judge-overturns-2019-decision-by-sfusd-to-cover-up-mural-at-washington-hs\">overturns the school board’s 2019 decision to cover the mural\u003c/a> at Washington High School, ruling in favor of the George \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/george-washington-high-schools-alumni-association-sues-over-controversial-s-f-mural/\">Washington High School Alumni Association, who had sued the district\u003c/a> and school board on the grounds that the district didn’t do an environmental review required by state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-opens-full-person-learning-2021-2022-school-year\">SFUSD resumes in-person learning\u003c/a> full time at all schools, five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 15, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/time-is-of-the-essence-san-franciscos-school-district-faces-possible-state-takeover/\">State officials tell SFUSD they are stepping in\u003c/a> to oversee budget-related decisions in the face of a $125 million deficit. California Department of Education officials give the district until Dec. 15 to present a plan to address the shortfall. The news is made public the following month, emboldening recall supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The superintendent’s budget-balancing plan, approved Dec. 14, would cut $50 million from school sites, resulting in the loss of about 360 positions and $40 million from the central office. The balance would be made up in savings and new revenue. López is the sole no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s budget troubles date back years. In Feb. 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/educators-hit-with-first-layoff-warning-in-a-decade/\">Matthews warned district employees of layoffs\u003c/a> and “drastic cuts” totaling $26 million, citing rising costs that by then had outpaced revenues for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Week of Sept. 27, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Judge-orders-S-F-school-district-to-pay-legal-16500190.php\">A judge orders SFUSD to pay $60,000 in legal fees\u003c/a> related to a lawsuit over the renaming of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: The board \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C738F91DFC25\">votes 6-1 to appeal\u003c/a> a court ruling that found that the board violated state law when it decided to cover the Washington High mural. Lam is the only no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 18, 2021\u003c/strong>: The San Francisco Department of Elections announces that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\">all three school board member recalls qualify\u003c/a> for the ballot, and sets a Feb. 15 election date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: “Stop the Recall of Faauuga Moliga” political action committee is formed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 30, 2021\u003c/strong>: A campaign committee to oppose the recall of all three board members, “No on Recalls of School Board Commissioners Lopez, Collins and Moliga,” is created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897133\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a green t-shirt and two women, one wearing a navy blue shirt and the other with a black jacket, yellow pin and shirt with a flowers stand on the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD teachers and school board recall opponents (from left) Alex DiCicco, Karina Hwang and Cynthia Meza stand outside Leonard Flynn Elementary School in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 4, 2021\u003c/strong>: State Sen. Scott \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scott_wiener/status/1456302181187944458\">Wiener, D-San Francisco, announces his endorsement of the recall\u003c/a> of all three board members. Five days later, Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Mayor-Breed-backs-recall-of-three-San-Francisco-16607126.php\">announces her endorsement\u003c/a> of the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 15, 2021\u003c/strong>: A second pro-recall campaign committee, \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=sfo\">Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, Lopez, and Moliga\u003c/a>, is formed to handle the messaging and media in support of the recall. Todd David, the former political director for Wiener’s state Senate campaign, is listed as the treasurer. Arthur Rock, the venture capitalist, chips in $350,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 17, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/judge-lowell-admissions-decision-violated-open-meeting-law/\">A judge rules that the school board violated the Brown Act\u003c/a> when it voted to do away with merit-based admissions at Lowell. The order leaves open the possibility of correcting the procedural error by putting the resolution on the school board's agenda with proper notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 16, 2021\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sf-board-education-approves-maintaining-current-admissions-criteria-lowell-high-school-2022-23\">school board votes\u003c/a> to maintain lottery-based admissions at Lowell High School for the 2022-23 school year.\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-superintendent-proposes-maintaining-choice-based-admissions-lowell-high-school-2022-23-school\"> Matthews put forward the proposal in late November\u003c/a>, saying there wasn't enough time to transition back to a merit-based system before the district’s Feb. 4 application deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 15, 2022\u003c/strong>: The recall election.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The effort to recall three San Francisco Board of Education commissioners has divided the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on the take, the recall is a coup attempt by a mob of venture capitalists and moneyed moms; a righteous crusade to save the city’s marginalized children run by a bootstrapping crew of political newbies; or a misguided effort to exorcize the demons of the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort to oust school board members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga — the first recall effort to make it onto the city’s ballot in almost four decades — is a uniquely San Franciscan edition of the ire directed at school boards across the country. Parents have been pushed to the brink by COVID-era stresses, and many have felt abandoned by their public institutions — and are hungry for accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should Collins, López and Moliga be held responsible for the disarray largely wrought by the pandemic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, anger over the handling of education during the pandemic launched a parent advocacy movement that surfaced the recall effort. That push has been fueled by long-simmering tensions, including a battle over who should have access to the city’s premier public high school and a years-old racial justice effort to rename certain schools — all of which have been highlighted by detractors as evidence of the school board’s ineptitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prolonged debacle has garnered national media attention and hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations in support of the recall. Politicians have piled on. There have been lawsuits, allegations of racism and even death threats. And now, finally, it’s almost time to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots will be mailed Jan. 12. To help you understand how we got to this point, here’s a timeline of key events that have led to the Feb. 15 recall election. Good luck, voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/faauuga-e1637364441573.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11896856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/faauuga-e1637364441573.jpeg\" alt=\"SF Mayor London Breed faces a man in a suit holding up his right hand.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1406\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed appoints Faauuga Moliga to the SF Board of Education on Oct. 15, 2018, on the campus of the June Jordan School for Equity. Breed has since supported the effort to recall Moliga, who is now the board's vice president. \u003ccite>(Courtesy \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1051912735196250112\">London Breed/Twitter\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 22, 2018\u003c/strong>: School Board Resolution No. 184-10A1, “In Support of a Formal Process in the Renaming of San Francisco Unified School District Schools,” is \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=ANVP8B5C815A\">unanimously adopted by board commissioners\u003c/a>. Written in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., the resolution calls for the school renaming process to be led by a blue-ribbon panel selected by the superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 15, 2018\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-appoints-faauuga-moliga-san-francisco-unified-school-district-board\">Mayor London Breed appoints Faauuga Moliga\u003c/a> to the school board to fill a seat vacated by Hydra Mendoza-McDonnell. Breed has since announced her support for recalling Moliga, as well as fellow board members Alison Collins and Gabriela López, and will select their replacements if the effort to oust them is successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 6, 2018\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-school-board-election-Collins-Lopez-and-13369546.php\">Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga are elected\u003c/a> to the school board. The three, all people of color, have since focused much of their policymaking on the district’s historically underserved students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>June 25, 2019\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-school-board-votes-to-destroy-14050025.php\">school board votes to paint over a controversial mural\u003c/a> at Washington High School. The 1936 \"Life of Washington\" mural, by Victor Arnautoff, had been criticized for its derogatory depictions of Native Americans and African Americans. The decision comes after a community advisory committee — consisting of local Native American community members, students, school representatives, district representatives, local artists and historians — recommends permanently removing the offensive content. But the board’s decision triggers a backlash from the school’s alumni association, art historians and local preservationists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 13, 2019\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-school-board-votes-to-destroy-14050025.php\">board reverses course on the Washington High mural\u003c/a>, voting 4-3 to cover the painting rather than permanently remove it. Board President Stevon Cook and board members Rachel Norton, Jenny Lam and Faauuga Moliga vote to cover the mural, while Alison Collins, Mark Sanchez and Gabriela López vote against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg\" alt=\"People take photos of a mural.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the public snap pictures of the controversial 'Life of Washington' mural during viewing hours at George Washington High School. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 16, 2020\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/schools-will-close-students-3-weeks\">SFUSD schools close\u003c/a> due to the onset of the COVID pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Summer 2020\u003c/strong>: A parental group called Decreasing the Distance, which forms to pressure the district to reopen schools, begins holding rallies and lobbying local and state elected officials. The group eventually evolves into the San Francisco Parent Coalition, laying the organizational groundwork to propel the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>June 24, 2020\u003c/strong>: In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the school board unanimously passes a resolution limiting police presence on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>July 15, 2020\u003c/strong>: SFUSD announces, per Superintendent Vince Matthews's recommendation, that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-confirms-it-will-begin-school-year-distance-learning\">classes for the 2020-21 school year will begin remotely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 24, 2020\u003c/strong>: About a month after the \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-announces-next-phase-reopening-begin-monday\">state moves San Francisco into the “red” reopening tier\u003c/a>, allowing for the resumption of limited capacity TK-sixth grade in-person learning, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-shares-planning-process-return-person-learning\">district shares an initial reopening plan\u003c/a>. Under the plan, the city must meet certain public health indicators and have measures in place, including a COVID testing strategy, staff training and labor agreements. Once met, SFUSD says it will apply to the city to offer in-person classes for priority student populations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 21, 2020\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/board-education-approves-lowell-high-school-admissions-change-incoming-class-fall-2021\">board adopts a change to a lottery-based admissions process\u003c/a> at Lowell High School for the 2021-22 school year only, approving \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/lowell-high-school-admissions-change-incoming-class-fall-2021\">a policy presented by Matthews\u003c/a>. With standardized testing and letter grades halted because of the pandemic, district officials say it's not possible to carry out the normal admissions process at Lowell. The elite high school’s merit-based admissions system has for decades been the subject of controversy, and the board's decision stokes anger among some parents and helps galvanize recall supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 23, 2020\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-bloody-glove-and-swastikas-SF-school-board-15676326.php\">Racist and threatening social media posts\u003c/a> attacking board members López and Collins appear online in response to the board’s unanimous vote to temporarily halt merit-based admissions at Lowell. Elected officials gather to denounce the harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 10, 2020\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/BV7UJT7C54B0/%24file/Presentation%20To%20BOE_School%20Names%20Panel%20Update.pdf\">School Names Advisory Committee provides an update\u003c/a> to the school board, including a list of 44 school sites identified for possible renaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 18, 2020\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/sfusd-updates-timeline-person-learning\">district pushes back its Jan. 25 target date to reopen\u003c/a> the first 12 schools for in-person instruction because an agreement with labor unions hasn't yet been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 4, 2021\u003c/strong>: A \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgRX68QeYT7C01jyfNfEXeIloxJgtZAd/view\">survey of SFUSD families\u003c/a> finds that 57% of respondents plan to return their children to in-person learning once it is offered. But those rates vary significantly by race/ethnicity, with 80% of white, 62% of Black, 61% of Latino and 36% of Asian families opting to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 20, 2021\u003c/strong>: Students and staff at \u003ca href=\"https://thelowell.org/9736/features/looking-back-and-moving-forward-on-racial-equity-at-lowell/\">Lowell High School are exposed to racist, antisemitic and pornographic content\u003c/a> during a school-wide online anti-racism lesson. In response, the school's \u003ca href=\"https://lowell-blackstudentunion.medium.com/lowell-bsu-2020-2021-demands-339494e24641\">Black Student Union leaders issue a set of 23 demands\u003c/a> aimed at creating a safe environment for Lowell’s underrepresented students. The first demand calls for the school board to pass a resolution permanently ending merit-based admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11899779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg\" alt='A young woman looks at the camera wearing a purple sweatshirt that says, &outclass of 21\" with a raised fist in place of the number 1.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district, stands outside her school in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 26, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school board \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/SF-Board-of-Education-Advances-Plan-to-Rename-Schools\">votes to move ahead with renaming 44 sites\u003c/a>. The plan calls for the committee to review new names by April 19 and then make recommendations to the board. Commissioner Kevine \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BW6NYK613C77\">Boggess is the only dissenter\u003c/a>. Mayor Breed criticizes the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 2, 2021\u003c/strong>: School board commissioners Collins, López and Matt Alexander and student delegates Shavonne Hines-Foster and Kathya Correa Almanza \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BXR4HA0B9CC0\">introduce a resolution\u003c/a> that would permanently end the merit-based admissions system at Lowell High School and replace it with the same lottery system used at the district’s comprehensive high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 3, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2021/02/03/herrera-sues-school-board-and-district-to-implement-real-reopening-plan/\">City Attorney Dennis Herrera sues the school district\u003c/a> and its board, alleging they have failed to come up with a reopening plan that meets state requirements. Three days later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-unions-reach-tentative-agreement-health-and-safety-standards-person-learning\">SFUSD and labor unions reach a tentative agreement\u003c/a> on the health and safety standards for in-person learning. Still, on Feb. 11, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2021/02/11/herrera-files-for-emergency-court-order-to-open-sf-public-schools/\">Herrera files an emergency court order\u003c/a> to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 9, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BW6P3X614632\">board votes to permanently end merit-based admissions at Lowell High School\u003c/a>. Commissioners Lam and Boggess vote against the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 19, 2021\u003c/strong>: Parents Autumn Looijen and Siva Raj launch a campaign committee in support of recalling López, Collins and Moliga — the only three commissioners who have served on the school board long enough to face a recall challenge, per city election rules. (Leaders of the effort say they would recall all seven board members if they could.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Autumn_Siva_petitions_credit_Recall_SF_School_Board-1-scaled-e1635468698126.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11894302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Autumn_Siva_petitions_credit_Recall_SF_School_Board-1-scaled-e1635468698126.jpeg\" alt=\"A man and a woman, smiling and arm in arm, stand at the corner of two walls stacked with election filing boxes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Looijen, left, and Siva Raj, co-founders of the Recall SF School Board campaign, stand in front of boxes filled with signed petitions to put the effort on the ballot. \u003ccite>(Recall SF School Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recall opponents brand the couple interlopers because Looijen’s children attend Los Altos schools, while Raj and his children only moved to the city from Pleasanton months before initiating the recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 21, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/S-F-school-board-president-Renamings-are-on-15967923.php\">In an opinion piece in The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, López, who recently became school board president, says the board will put the school renaming effort on hold to prioritize reopening classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: SFUSD announces\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863665/questions-linger-as-san-francisco-schools-aim-to-reopen-next-month\"> an agreement with the United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a> to resume in-person learning on April 12 for some of the district’s youngest students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 18, 2021\u003c/strong>: Attorney Paul Scott, representing high school alumni associations and others, \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Alumni-v.-SFUSD.pdf\">sues the school board \u003c/a>over its decision to rename 44 schools, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Did-S-F-school-board-s-renaming-of-44-schools-15938584.php\">following through on an earlier, February threat\u003c/a>. The same day, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SFSchoolNaming-ORDER.pdf\">orders the district to either withdraw its renaming resolution\u003c/a> or show good cause for why it has not done so at a hearing set for May 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 19, 2021\u003c/strong>: A growing number of students, community members and local leaders begin \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/SFUSD-school-board-member-criticized-for-racist-16039069.php\">calling for school board vice president Alison Collins to resign\u003c/a> after the discovery of a series of tweets she wrote in 2016 disparaging Asian Americans. The tweets are resurfaced and circulated by recall supporter and Lowell alum Diane Yap, who herself has \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/upzonethememes/status/1374136766802718720\">come under fire for past comments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_7815-scaled-e1617305062188.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_7815-scaled-e1617305062188.jpg\" alt=\"A woman standing in front of microphones at a news conference.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner Alison Collins addresses her supporters at a rally in San Francisco on March 31, 2021. \u003ccite>(MJ Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school board \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BYMMM75BCEF6\">votes to strip Collins of her role as vice president\u003c/a>. Commissioners Lam and Moliga, who authored the resolution, call for her to resign, saying she has failed to take responsibility for the harm she caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 31, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/SF-school-board-member-Alison-Collins-sues-16068075.php\">Collins sues the school district\u003c/a> and fellow board members for $87 million, claiming they unlawfully retaliated against her for the 2016 tweets and violated her free speech rights. She ultimately drops the lawsuit in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 1, 2021\u003c/strong>: The “Committee to Support the Recall of Board of Education Commissioners, Lopez, Collins, and Moliga” (later renamed \"Recall School Board Members Lopez, Collins, & Moliga\") begins circulating petitions to qualify the effort for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-superintendent-announces-decision-postpone-retirement-until-june-30-2022\">Matthews announces his decision to postpone his retirement\u003c/a> until June 30, 2022. The \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BYMM8S599F9A\">conditions of his staying on\u003c/a> are laid out in a new contract approved by the board on April 20 that includes a requirement that it follow its own rules and stay focused on reopening. Recall proponents argue that replacing the three board members is key because the school board will select the next superintendent.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Frustration among some parents over the pace of reopening in San Francisco is central to the recall push. On April 26, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-welcomes-back-secondary-students-focal-populations\">2,000 middle and high school students in certain populations\u003c/a> return to in-person learning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873384/a-lot-of-people-are-unhappy-about-sfusd-plan-to-bring-high-school-seniors-back-to-class\">with some high schoolers joining in mid-May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 23, 2021\u003c/strong>: Lowell alums and other groups that oppose the move to lottery-based admissions \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/S-F-school-board-sued-over-controversial-change-16125125.php\">sue the school board\u003c/a>, alleging it voted in violation of the Brown Act, a state law requiring public access to local government agency meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: The campaign supporting the recall receives its first donation of at least $100. Previously, the campaign limited donations to under $100 in order to, they say, democratize their campaign and limit record-keeping responsibilities. In late August, venture capitalist Arthur Rock \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894065/sf-school-board-recall-funded-mostly-by-local-donors-with-venture-capitalists-topping-the-list\">contributes $49,500 to the pro-recall campaign committee\u003c/a>, the largest donation up to that point. Rock has contributed to organizations with ties to charter schools, including political advocacy arms of the California Charter Schools Association, and the EdVoice for the Kids political action committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sacks, a fellow venture capitalist, also chips in $49,500 for the recall. He previously contributed $180,000 to the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom and hosted a fundraiser in San Francisco for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Critics of the recall seize on the Rock and Sacks donations, labeling the campaign a coup attempt bankrolled by politically motivated outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black mask kneels down next to a small girl wearing a blue mask who is holding a poster that reads \"no to recall!\"' width=\"1200\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School Board President Gabriela López poses for a photo with a young supporter at the launch event for the No School Board Recalls campaign on Nov. 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(https://noschoolboardrecall.org/)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>July 27, 2021\u003c/strong>: A judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/judge-overturns-2019-decision-by-sfusd-to-cover-up-mural-at-washington-hs\">overturns the school board’s 2019 decision to cover the mural\u003c/a> at Washington High School, ruling in favor of the George \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/george-washington-high-schools-alumni-association-sues-over-controversial-s-f-mural/\">Washington High School Alumni Association, who had sued the district\u003c/a> and school board on the grounds that the district didn’t do an environmental review required by state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-opens-full-person-learning-2021-2022-school-year\">SFUSD resumes in-person learning\u003c/a> full time at all schools, five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 15, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/time-is-of-the-essence-san-franciscos-school-district-faces-possible-state-takeover/\">State officials tell SFUSD they are stepping in\u003c/a> to oversee budget-related decisions in the face of a $125 million deficit. California Department of Education officials give the district until Dec. 15 to present a plan to address the shortfall. The news is made public the following month, emboldening recall supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The superintendent’s budget-balancing plan, approved Dec. 14, would cut $50 million from school sites, resulting in the loss of about 360 positions and $40 million from the central office. The balance would be made up in savings and new revenue. López is the sole no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s budget troubles date back years. In Feb. 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/educators-hit-with-first-layoff-warning-in-a-decade/\">Matthews warned district employees of layoffs\u003c/a> and “drastic cuts” totaling $26 million, citing rising costs that by then had outpaced revenues for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Week of Sept. 27, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Judge-orders-S-F-school-district-to-pay-legal-16500190.php\">A judge orders SFUSD to pay $60,000 in legal fees\u003c/a> related to a lawsuit over the renaming of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: The board \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C738F91DFC25\">votes 6-1 to appeal\u003c/a> a court ruling that found that the board violated state law when it decided to cover the Washington High mural. Lam is the only no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 18, 2021\u003c/strong>: The San Francisco Department of Elections announces that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\">all three school board member recalls qualify\u003c/a> for the ballot, and sets a Feb. 15 election date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: “Stop the Recall of Faauuga Moliga” political action committee is formed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 30, 2021\u003c/strong>: A campaign committee to oppose the recall of all three board members, “No on Recalls of School Board Commissioners Lopez, Collins and Moliga,” is created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897133\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a green t-shirt and two women, one wearing a navy blue shirt and the other with a black jacket, yellow pin and shirt with a flowers stand on the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD teachers and school board recall opponents (from left) Alex DiCicco, Karina Hwang and Cynthia Meza stand outside Leonard Flynn Elementary School in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 4, 2021\u003c/strong>: State Sen. Scott \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scott_wiener/status/1456302181187944458\">Wiener, D-San Francisco, announces his endorsement of the recall\u003c/a> of all three board members. Five days later, Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Mayor-Breed-backs-recall-of-three-San-Francisco-16607126.php\">announces her endorsement\u003c/a> of the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 15, 2021\u003c/strong>: A second pro-recall campaign committee, \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=sfo\">Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, Lopez, and Moliga\u003c/a>, is formed to handle the messaging and media in support of the recall. Todd David, the former political director for Wiener’s state Senate campaign, is listed as the treasurer. Arthur Rock, the venture capitalist, chips in $350,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 17, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/judge-lowell-admissions-decision-violated-open-meeting-law/\">A judge rules that the school board violated the Brown Act\u003c/a> when it voted to do away with merit-based admissions at Lowell. 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"content": "\u003cp>Following months of debate over the San Francisco School Board of Education’s management of city schools, voters will be asked three separate questions in a special election on Feb. 15: whether to remove Vice President Faauuga Moliga, President Gabriela López and member Alison Collins from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moliga is charting his own path to defeat the attempt, and of the three has waged the most vigorous campaign to keep his job. He’s garnered individual donations and endorsements, and stumped at the meetings of local political clubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, a growing number of the city’s political activists are splitting their endorsements in his favor, and their stances on the recall could help drive voter opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jim Ross, political consultant\"]‘By putting a face on it, Moliga is making it tough to just say, ‘Let’s get rid of this faceless organization.”[/pullquote]In recent weeks, the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, the San Francisco Women’s Political Committee, the San Francisco Eastern Neighborhoods Democratic Club and the Potrero Hill Democratic Club have endorsed only the recalls of López and Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Bernal Heights Democratic Club, after hearing from Moliga at their meeting on Dec. 9, decided to oppose his removal and take no position on the other recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political consultant Jim Ross, a veteran of campaigns for local offices and ballot measures in San Francisco, said it’s a smart strategy for Moliga to actively campaign on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy to get behind a slogan of ‘recall the board of education’ because ‘the board of education’ sounds like some big bureaucracy,” Ross added. “But by putting a face on it, Moliga is making it tough to just say, ‘Let’s get rid of this faceless organization.'”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nWhile \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11896759/sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-defends-herself-against-recall-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">both Collins\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893795/all-political-sf-board-of-education-president-gabriela-lopez-on-the-recall-effort-against-her-2-other-board-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">López told KQED\u003c/a> in November that voters shouldn’t draw distinctions among the three imperiled board members, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11896685/faced-with-recall-faauuga-moliga-distances-himself-from-fellow-sf-school-board-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moliga said he wasn’t running in tandem with anyone \u003c/a>— and has raised money through his own political action committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With just over a month until voting begins on Jan. 18, Moliga has been frequenting the virtual debates and meetings that inform local political club endorsements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting the backing of these reliable voters is especially important heading into a special election that may catch more casual voters by surprise, said Democratic strategist Debbie Mesloh, an early adviser of Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11892743\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/schoolbd-1020x676.png\"]“For this particular recall, you really want to make sure that you’re trying to target people who are going to care about it anyway, and that’s going to be the really engaged voters, many of whom are involved in their local Democratic club,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, some political groups in the city have taken the same position for all three recall questions. The recall campaign has argued that Collins, López and Moliga were aligned on issues central to the campaign — namely the process of renaming schools and resuming in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like the moderate United Democratic Club, the Chinese American Democratic Club and the Edwin M. Lee Asian Pacific Democratic Club have endorsed removing all three board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897089/its-going-to-make-it-worse-parents-wary-of-sf-school-board-recall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">groups who see the election as an unjustifiable power grab\u003c/a> with little upside for students, such as the San Francisco Berniecrats, have supported a “no” position on all three recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to the dismay of some progressives, López and Collins have shown less interest than Moliga in hitting the traditional campaign circuit and making their case to groups that could mobilize voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Debbie Mesloh, Democratic strategist\"]‘For this particular recall, you really want to make sure that you’re trying to target … the really engaged voters.’[/pullquote]On Tuesday night, the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, one of the city’s most progressive groups, met and voted to oppose the recalls of Moliga and López, while taking no position on the recall of Collins, who has drawn additional criticism for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writing derogatory tweets and filing a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk Club co-president Edward Wright said he was upset that \u003ca href=\"https://www.milkclub.org/1214\">only Moliga agreed to fill out\u003c/a> the club’s campaign questionnaire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am frankly a little bit offended and a little bit more than disappointed that there are people that this club has endorsed [in past elections] who, now that they’re facing a recall, want us to go out and make the case for them to the voters … but who will not go through this process to make the case to our members,” Wright said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the board members have argued that it’s unfair to ask the three to spend their spare time fighting a recall they believe has little merit, especially while the board has been working to balance the district’s budget to avoid a potential state takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More Politics Stories' tag='politics']Commissioners also face hurdles to campaigning that don’t exist for most elected officials: School board members are paid just $6,000 a year, and typically have full-time jobs outside of their board work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Add in the numerous end-of-year meetings and decisions we need to make on top of full-time work that also has its own end-of-year demands,” López \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lopez4schools/status/1470208535623462914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted this week\u003c/a>. “Campaigning is [full-time] and humans have their limits. Frankly, I have to choose myself, my job and my role as president to end this year strong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, some club meetings and campaign forums have taken place on Tuesday evenings, overlapping with the board’s regularly scheduled meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Joni Eisen, political action chair of the Potrero Hill Democratic Club, said Moliga arranged for a supporter to speak on his behalf at their Tuesday endorsement meeting, but she heard no reply from López and Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jim Ross, political consultant\"]‘San Francisco is a retail politics town … where voters want to know their elected officials.’[/pullquote]“They’re not showing up to these debates and forums and opportunities to speak,” Eisen said. “So why should anyone support them if they don’t even bother to reply to invitations to come?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While both yes and no campaigns are likely to saturate voters’ eyes and ears in the weeks ahead, Ross, the political consultant, said that the three board members’ direct involvement on the campaign trail will go a long way toward determining their political fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People always talk about direct mail or television or online, but San Francisco is a retail politics town,” said Ross. “It’s a town where voters want to know their elected officials — they want to know them personally.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sf-school-board-recall\">part of a series of interviews\u003c/a> KQED has conducted with all three San Francisco school board members facing recall elections in February.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to recall San Francisco Board of Education members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga is gaining momentum, with high-profile endorsements from state Sen. Scott Wiener and Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters will be asked whether to keep or oust the commissioners in three separate questions on a Feb. 15 special election ballot. If any are recalled, Breed would choose their replacements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall leaders have said they would recall all seven board members if they could, but the other four commissioners were elected last November, and therefore aren’t yet eligible based on city election rules. There have been at least 55 recall attempts of California school board members this year, according to the California School Boards Association.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Faauuga Moliga, SFUSD Board of Education vice president']‘I’m currently running the race to stop the recall of myself. I’m not running in tandem with Gabriela or Alison currently.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the board’s defenders are getting ready to fight back. The group NoSchoolBoardRecall has begun collecting donations, and Moliga, the board’s vice president, has launched his own campaign. The teachers union has so far not undertaken a formal campaign, and its leaders said they will stay focused on educating voters, for now, though on social media the recall’s proponents have accused the union of taking a more active role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED education reporter Vanessa Rancaño spoke with San Francisco Board of Education Vice President Faauuga Moliga about the recall effort against him and his colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview from Nov. 15, has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: Do you see a distinction between yourself, Gabriela Lopez and Alison Collins in terms of whether any of you should be recalled?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Faauuga Moliga:\u003c/strong> There is a recall effort to recall the school board, but, you know, realistically, the school board is not being recalled, three individuals are. Our legislation and the work that we’ve done are very different, in a sense. Like our interests, things they pursue, they’re just very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I constantly wanted schools to be open. I’ve constantly been working at addressing the budget deficit. And I can’t speak for what Gabriela or Alison have done or what their interests have been around those things. I’m currently running the race to stop the recall of myself. I’m not running in tandem with Gabriela or Alison currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed originally appointed you to the board. Now she’s endorsing this recall effort. How do you think about her role in this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I disagree with the mayor in terms of her reasoning to recall me, and I let her know that. Things that she’s mentioned about my work, I just strongly disagree with. I was hoping she was going to stay out of it.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Faauuga Moliga, SFUSD Board of Education vice president']‘I know things weren’t perfect, and if people felt unseen during that time, I personally would just like to say we could have done better.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role do you think race plays in the recall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the first Pacific Islander to ever run for the school board, it’s critical. One of the reasons I ran is because Pacific Islanders were not doing well. And the reason why they were not doing well was because there’s a lot of systemic barriers that have really been a hindrance for the growth of Pacific Islanders in the city. So having a voice at the table and being able to advocate for things like the Fa’a Sāmoa Initiative, the Samoa Community Development (Center) learning hub, those things just don’t show up if you don’t have a seat at the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of being equitable and being able to serve all your constituents and families that live in the city, you have to have representation, especially for those groups that are marginalized the most. And so race, it really matters to public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the biggest criticisms from recall supporters is around the reopening of schools as well as feelings from parents of not being heard, the board not recognizing their suffering during the pandemic and their kids’ mental health issues. They point specifically to evidence of learning loss among the most marginalized students in the district. What do you say to them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that you didn’t hear a lot during the pandemic publicly was voices from the marginalized communities. So for me, going out there and meeting with families in projects, indigenous communities, Black communities, Latinx immigrant communities and trying to figure out what are their needs (was important) because they’re not the ones that are showing up at the school board meetings. They don’t have that kind of access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This thing around learning loss and the opportunity gap, they kind of go hand in hand. The same students that were facing challenges prior to the pandemic are the same students that were also impacted during the pandemic. Because these are the communities that are currently impacted. If we weren’t able to get resources to them as a city and county and a school district prior to (the pandemic) it is going to be really tough for us to do it now. 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Repeatedly I said we have to continue doing things that are going to cost-save. It’s not an easy issue that we’re working on right now, but I do feel confident that we’re going to be able to get a balanced budget and not have the school district be taken over.[aside postID='news_11893795,forum_2010101886188,news_11892743' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you see any validity in the anger that’s being expressed by some parents through this recall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do, and I understand. I’ve met with parents, sit down and talk with parents, especially the parents that have been feeling unheard. My hope is that we can work together now and in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have greater political ambitions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s never been my intention. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sf-school-board-recall\">a series of interviews\u003c/a> that KQED has conducted with all three San Francisco school board members facing recall elections in February.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to recall San Francisco Board of Education members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga is gaining momentum with high profile endorsements from state Sen. Scott Wiener and Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the board’s defenders are getting ready to fight back. The group NoSchoolBoardRecall has begun collecting donations, and Vice President Moliga has launched his own campaign. \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/news/uesf-statement-on-board-of-education-recall/\">The union representing San Francisco teachers said it opposes the recall effort\u003c/a>, but for now will remain on the sidelines, with a focus on educating voters, according to its leadership. On social media the recall’s proponents have accused the union of taking a more active role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall leaders argue the board unnecessarily delayed reopening classrooms while prioritizing, and mismanaging, the renaming of schools and the admissions policy change at Lowell High School. But anger directed at Collins has been its own motivating force for some. Collins was stripped of her leadership position on the board over past Twitter comments resurfaced by recall proponent and Lowell alumna Diane Yap. In response, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">Collins sued the district for $87 million.\u003c/a> A judge dismissed the suit, and Collins dropped her effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED education reporter Vanessa Rancaño spoke with San Francisco Board of Education commissioner Alison Collins about that controversy and the broader recall effort.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alison Collins, San Francisco Board of Education commissioner\"]‘One of the things that I think makes me the most sad about this recall effort is that it takes needed energy away from meeting the needs of our most vulnerable communities who are still struggling with the impacts of the pandemic.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview from Nov. 15 has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: Do you draw a distinction between yourself and Gabriela Lopez and Faauuga Moliga in terms of whether you should be recalled? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alison Collins:\u003c/strong> No. We are all representing constituencies that have been underrepresented. We all come from community. We all value community voice. We may not always see eye to eye on how to get there. I think that is normal, healthy part of democracy, and I think it makes our board better that we do represent and reflect a variety of voices and constituencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m really proud of the work that we are doing because that expertise and direct experience inform the work that we’ve been doing, and it’s allowed us to really bridge some of these persistent gaps that have been named in the past, but that we haven’t been able to really address before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you going to campaign with them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think most of what we’ve been doing is doing the work. One of the things that I think makes me the most sad about this recall effort is that it takes needed energy away from meeting the needs of our most vulnerable communities who are still struggling with the impacts of the pandemic. I would much rather be talking to you about, how do we address sexual assault in our schools? How do we fully fund education in California? This is happening nationwide with an unprecedented amount of recalls across the country. It is a political tactic, and it’s unfortunate when politics gets in the way of us doing the work that we were elected to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How are you thinking about the mayor’s role in this recall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, education is always a political issue. Folks often want to use education as a talking point, you know, to engage with voters. Schools are always a very emotional issue. But we’re the ones that are most closely connected to the communities that we serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think four out of seven of us are credentialed educators. I always defer to the folks that are on the ground and are doing the work. And those are going to be the parents, parent leaders, students themselves and our educators that are in the schools. And those are the folks that we’re listening to.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alison Collins, San Francisco Board of Education commissioner\"]‘What happened to me was an information attack and the goal of it was to prevent me and President Lopez and others on our board from doing this racial equity work.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role do you think race plays in this recall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just about race. But I do think that when you look at some of the criticism directed specifically at the three of us … having a president that’s Latina, a vice president that’s Black and both also being women as well. I do think there are different standards. I think where this really shows up is not in critiques of policies, but in critiques of people. They invariably feed into tropes of certain racial, cultural or gender groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For a lot of parents who are supporting this recall they are frustrated around the reopening of schools, feeling like the board wasn’t listening to them and ignoring concerns about learning loss and mental health issues. They argue, if this board is so worried about equity, why are they doing these “symbolic” things and not reopening, which would help the kids who are most likely to suffer learning loss during the pandemic. What would you want to say to them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We represent all parents and I’m a parent who wanted my teenagers to go back for sure, but there were also families that reached out to us that were worried. Our number one priority was opening schools safely, not opening schools at all costs. I’m proud of the work that our district has done and I think it reflects a wide range of perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This idea about learning loss — every year, the parent advisory council — the [American Indian/Alaskan Native Parent Advisory Council], the [Community Advisory Committee for Special Education for SFUSD], the English Learners Advisory Committee — present an official report to the Board of Education and there is one consistent thing that they say that their children need: they need to see that their community, history and culture is reflected in the curriculum. That motivates kids, so that has a direct impact on achievement. Anybody who’s saying they’re not focused on learning is actually just not aware or hasn’t been involved because that’s the work that we’re currently doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I want to ask you about the tweet controversy. Looking back, how do you judge the way you handled that situation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m very sorry that my words were used in a way that was hurtful to a community that was reeling. I’m very sad that my words were weaponized in that way. And they did cause people pain. During that time, I was listening to many folks and having really hard conversations with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was about really just stirring up outrage. And I don’t think that’s productive for the Black community. I don’t think it’s productive for the Asian-American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My tweets, what I said, was not racist. My tweets addressed ongoing anti-Black racism at Lowell and throughout SFUSD. Anybody who’s done racial equity work, they understood what I was saying. At the same time, I did not think that having (that) conversation during a time when Asian-Americans were really grieving (was appropriate.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we’re going to talk about what I said, we should be looking at who surfaced what I said and what were their motivations in sharing old tweets about during a time when Asian Americans were going through a lot of fear and pain. If the impact of starting that conversation is more upset, that says a lot about what’s really behind that conversation. And I think this is a part of a larger pattern that we see behind recalls going on nationally.[aside postID='news_11893795,forum_2010101886188,news_11892743' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In terms of your lawsuit, why — in the context of the district’s financial situation, in the context of everything that you just expressed about the pain in Asian-American communities at that time — why was it important to you to sue?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needed to protect my family, and I also needed to protect the work of the Board of Education and also protect students and families in our district and in our communities. What happened to me was an information attack and the goal of it was to prevent me and President Lopez and others on our board from doing this racial equity work. Specifically, it relates to Lowell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If folks want to talk about lawsuits, there’s a lot of lawsuits flying around, right? And there’s a lot of people filing them, and a lot of those lawsuits are being lodged by folks who want to undermine progress for communities of color who are consistently fighting to make sure that their kids have access to high-quality schools and that their kids feel valued and visible in the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had the opportunity to continue my lawsuit and I chose not to continue it when school started because I wanted to focus on meeting the needs of families and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you regret filing it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I don’t, because it reaffirmed my presence on the board. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s school board has spent the past year in the national spotlight, garnering the attention of pundits from Fox News to the New York Times editorial pages for its controversial decisions on distance learning, school renamings and admissions policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\">The campaign to recall board members\u003c/a> Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga, however, has relied on a donor network close to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED analysis of campaign filings for the election, slated for Feb. 15, found that at least 76% of the pro-recall cash raised so far is coming from donors in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the recall, who haven’t started fundraising, will likely seek to portray the campaign as spearheaded by forces outside of the city — as has been the case in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049078199/a-look-at-the-groups-supporting-school-board-protesters-nationwide\">a number of other recent school board protests across the country \u003c/a>— said Jason McDaniel, associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University, who reviewed KQED’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I suspect they'll still do that message, but I do think that so far the fact that most of the donations ... are coming from people in San Francisco who are individuals will at least be a counterargument to that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Local networks'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the campaign finance reports filed with the city do reveal some potential political vulnerabilities for the recall campaign: Its top donors are wealthy venture capitalists who could serve as prime foils for the unions likely to bankroll the imperiled board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the recall campaign, at least initially, appears to be more of an “amateur affair” than an orchestrated big money takeover of San Francisco schools, McDaniel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't mean that in an insulting way. There's not maybe a ton of political experience there,” he added. “But what that seems to be is that they're turning to their local networks. ... That's where they're getting their contributions from so far. I suspect that's pretty politically smart as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $581,240 raised by the recall committee through the end of September, at least $442,834 (76%) came from donors in the city, compared to at least $76,435 (13%) from outside of San Francisco. The remaining 11% of contributions were under $100 — classified as unitemized — meaning the donors did not have to disclose their names or location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11905144\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1531\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1.png 1531w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-800x549.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-1020x700.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/donations1-160x110.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1531px) 100vw, 1531px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nBy comparison, some 63% of the donations made to candidates running for school board last year originated in San Francisco, and local measures on the ballot last November got 60% of their cash from city donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of donors actually are just from our community,” said Siva Raj, a San Francisco public school parent who is co-chair of the recall campaign. “These are parents, teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Hack, who spent 31 years working for the San Francisco Unified School District as a teacher, principal and department supervisor, said he kicked in $75 and volunteered to gather signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've never seen a board like this one,” he said, “and I've been through, over my years in the district, many school board meetings.”[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"san-francisco-school-board\"]Hack said the controversy surrounding \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">school board Commissioner Alison Collins’s tweets\u003c/a>, which included derogatory comments about Asian people, moved him to action, but he has plenty of other gripes. And while he fundamentally backed the board’s controversial effort to rename schools and overhaul the admissions policy to increase diversity at Lowell High School, he questioned the timing and handling of both initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not typically ever support recalls, but this is different,” Hack said. “There needs to be a lesson here about their ongoing behavior and refusal to listen to the stakeholders in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some instances, national press coverage of the school board's recent controversies is helping to bring in money from across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Dalzell of Dover, New Hampshire, has no personal ties to the district. He said he chipped in $500 after reading about the issue this summer in The Wall Street Journal. For him, it’s ideological.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years Dalzell chaired the board of a Los Angeles charter school and said he grew frustrated with the district's school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've always been interested in trying to get more advantages for kids in low-income areas,” he said, “and so I view San Francisco as representative of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Venture capitalists top donor list\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some of the recall’s biggest donors also have a history of involvement with education policy and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top two donors, Arthur Rock and David Sacks, have each put in $49,500. Rock, a self-employed venture capitalist with a record of funding education-related causes, has contributed to organizations with ties to charter schools, including political advocacy arms of the California Charter Schools Association, and the EdVoice for the Kids political action committee. Sacks, a fellow venture capitalist who runs Craft Ventures, contributed $180,000 to the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom and recently hosted a fundraiser in San Francisco for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the top 10 contributors so far to the SF school board recall campaign — all of whom have given at least $10,000 — six identified as partners or investors at venture capital firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1.png\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1.png\" alt=\"A horizontal bar chart showing top 10 donors to SF school board recall.\" width=\"1540\" height=\"915\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11905147\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1.png 1540w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-800x475.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-1020x606.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/top10-1-1536x913.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1540px) 100vw, 1540px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nIn his campaign against the gubernatorial recall earlier this year, Newsom frequently invoked the donors of the campaign to oust him (including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and the Republican National Committee) as he attempted to tar the effort as out of step with the majority of California voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the three school board members facing removal could point to the recall’s top donors as symbols of the city’s financial elite attempting to strong-arm a local election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it tells me is that so many of the people who live in San Francisco who are wealthy happen to come from that world,” McDaniel said. “I do think that's a potential vulnerability in terms of a political message. But right now, it does not feel like a very credible one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But venture capitalists aren’t the only big spenders. The Chinese American Democratic Club of San Francisco kicked in $10,000. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcadc.org/letter_to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CADC opposed the change to the Lowell admissions policy\u003c/a>, but CADC Education Committee Chair Seeyew Mo says the group's decision to donate was solely prompted by Collins's tweets.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about a policy disagreement in terms of Commissioner Alison Collins. This is about rooting out anti-Asian sentiment and ideology from public education,” Mo said, pointing out that many CADC members volunteered to collect signatures to recall Collins. “A lot of the grassroots movement that you heard about, a lot of them are Chinese Americans who have not been politically active until this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CADC will announce its position on the recall of Lopez and Moliga after holding a membership vote, Mo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group called San Francisco Common Sense Voter Guide, a committee supporting the recall of SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin, contributed $9,000 to the school board recall. That committee receives much of its funding from another political group called Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, which is funded by a handful of wealthy San Francisco investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dropping self-imposed donation limits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Initially, the recall campaign placed a $99.99 cap on donations, even though there’s no legal limit on fundraising for this type of campaign. It was an attempt, leaders said, to prevent any donor from having an outsize voice in the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there were practical reasons, too: Contributions under $100 don’t require record-keeping, which campaign leaders expected they’d have to do themselves and “didn’t want to screw it up,” said campaign co-chair Autumn Looijen, a San Francisco resident whose children live in Los Altos.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Larry Tramutola, political consultant\"]'This is far from a done deal. It's a lot easier collecting signatures for a recall than to recall someone. So I expect a battle royal.'[/pullquote]The self-imposed limit was later increased significantly, to $49,500, to fund paid signature gatherers. State law requires donations of $50,000 or more to be printed on the paper petitions, which Looijen said would leave less space for signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, the campaign raised $61,971 in small-dollar donations (under $100). The balance between smaller and larger donations indicates strong grassroots support, said political consultant Larry Tramutola, though he added that larger donations are vital for building a campaign’s infrastructure and legitimacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bigger contributions help you to get smaller contributions,” he added. “No one, even if they don't like the school board, is going to give $100 dollars, $200, if they feel it's a losing effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the recall campaign eschewed its cap on larger contributions, the stream of donations under $100, typically a good barometer for grassroots engagement, has tailed off. The campaign reported raising $49,934 in unitemized donations through May 31, and just $12,038 since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The other side\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the campaign in support of Collins, Lopez and Moliga is just beginning to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall opponents launched their own effort last week, calling themselves NoSchoolBoardRecall, a self-described “group of parents, educators, and concerned SF residents who care about the needs of our public schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s teachers union, United Educators of San Francisco, is not involved in that campaign, though it is opposed to the recall, said its president, Cassondra Curiel. Instead, union leaders have said they are currently focused on member and community education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to educate the community around why this recall is a waste of resources that should be spent on schools and is the first step on a path toward an ill-advised mayoral controlled school district,” Curiel said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiel sees it as linked to the wave of recalls across the country — \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/School_board_recalls\">Ballotpedia has tracked 84 school board recall efforts\u003c/a> so far this year, the highest tally on record. 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