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All three face reelection campaigns in November, should they wish to keep their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed, who supported the recall, said her pick decisions came after what she described as weeks of meetings with parents and candidate interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve really agonized over this decision,” Breed said. “This is probably the hardest decision that I’ve ever had to make as mayor because it’s about the future of our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly composed board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905617/the-sf-school-board-recall-won-in-a-landslide-now-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immediately face a complex set of issues\u003c/a> and, potentially, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freshly energized parent base closely watching over their shoulders\u003c/a>. Vincent Matthews, the district’s current superintendent, has said he is stepping down in June, so the new board will be charged with hiring his successor. Many parents who supported the recall said they wanted a more competent board to select the district’s next leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, the president of Galileo’s Parent Teacher Student Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904873/political-ads-in-sf-school-board-recall-election-target-chinese-speaking-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appeared in pro-recall advertisements\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worked to register Asian American voters\u003c/a> ahead of the special election. She also serves on the SFUSD Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"sf-school-board-recall\"]“Being a first-generation immigrant, I also want to lift up the concerns and interests of the significant immigrant parents community in SFUSD,” said Hsu, who lives in the Richmond District, and started her own business after emigrating from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Motamedi, from the city’s Inner Sunset neighborhood, also has firsthand experience working with San Francisco’s school district, where she helped to oversee school spending as a co-chair of the district’s Public Education Enrichment Fund committee. She\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> also served as a member of its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/lcap-task-force\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local Control and Accountability Plan task force\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My focus is to bring my experience and our collective experience to help all families and children in this city to get the support they need as we do the really, really challenging work to get our district back on track,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward, Breed’s third appointee, lives in the Mission District and is associate director of the Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Joining the board after years of contentious meetings that have at times erupted in bitter clashes among members, parents and students, she underscored the “importance of process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve learned the value and importance of investing time into building rapport in order to better find common ground,” she said. “Because if even at the outset we don’t agree, when we engage in a process that’s thoughtful, that’s transparent and that’s fair, we’ll be in a better position to move things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new superintendent and board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">be tasked with long-standing issues\u003c/a>, such as falling enrollment and racial gaps in academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also is currently trying to solve problems with a new payroll operating system it began using in January. The transition to the new program has left some 200 educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/sfusd-employees-feel-disrespected-after-missing-full-or-partial-paychecks/\">either underpaid or without checks at all\u003c/a>, and is causing problems for nearly 1,000 more, according to the United Educators of San Francisco, which is threatening a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also looming large are the final budget cuts that need approval to solve the district’s $125 million budget deficit. The outgoing board approved all but $3.8 million in cuts, refusing to lay off some 47 paraeducator positions. Instead, it asked the district to cut more management positions, and delayed delivery of its second interim budget report to the state — which it now must submit by March 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we fight for the schools our students deserve, we look forward to working with the 3 BOE appointees,” the city’s teachers union said in a statement. “Educators know our students deserve stable, staffed & funded schools to thrive and hope the BOE is prepared to work with educators, families & our communities to achieve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite waning COVID-19 case levels in the city, the pandemic continues to pose challenges to how schools are run. 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It remains to be seen whether the new board will bow to intense pressure from some parents and alumni to reinstate the school’s merit-based admissions policy, or keep in place the new lottery system, which has helped significantly increase the number of Black and Latino students in this year’s freshman class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/why-californias-education-code-does-not-prohibit-academic-admissions-at-lowell-high-school/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arguments from the Lowell Alumni Association\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C9CSB26EC44E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">district has maintained\u003c/a> that a return to admissions based on academic performance would violate state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questionnaires from the supporters of the recall campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/ann-hsu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hsu\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/lainie-motamedi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motamedi\u003c/a> both said they would support reinstating Lowell’s merit-based admissions process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward stopped short of saying where she stood on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a general matter I’ll say I support equity, I support access and I support academically rigorous programs and I think as many people that can be a part of that is what I support,” she said on Friday. “And we probably need to be lifting up and having more schools that are able to allow students to have these academically rigorous programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next regularly scheduled board meeting is March 22, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> also served as a member of its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/lcap-task-force\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local Control and Accountability Plan task force\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My focus is to bring my experience and our collective experience to help all families and children in this city to get the support they need as we do the really, really challenging work to get our district back on track,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward, Breed’s third appointee, lives in the Mission District and is associate director of the Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Joining the board after years of contentious meetings that have at times erupted in bitter clashes among members, parents and students, she underscored the “importance of process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve learned the value and importance of investing time into building rapport in order to better find common ground,” she said. “Because if even at the outset we don’t agree, when we engage in a process that’s thoughtful, that’s transparent and that’s fair, we’ll be in a better position to move things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new superintendent and board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">be tasked with long-standing issues\u003c/a>, such as falling enrollment and racial gaps in academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also is currently trying to solve problems with a new payroll operating system it began using in January. The transition to the new program has left some 200 educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/sfusd-employees-feel-disrespected-after-missing-full-or-partial-paychecks/\">either underpaid or without checks at all\u003c/a>, and is causing problems for nearly 1,000 more, according to the United Educators of San Francisco, which is threatening a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also looming large are the final budget cuts that need approval to solve the district’s $125 million budget deficit. The outgoing board approved all but $3.8 million in cuts, refusing to lay off some 47 paraeducator positions. Instead, it asked the district to cut more management positions, and delayed delivery of its second interim budget report to the state — which it now must submit by March 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we fight for the schools our students deserve, we look forward to working with the 3 BOE appointees,” the city’s teachers union said in a statement. “Educators know our students deserve stable, staffed & funded schools to thrive and hope the BOE is prepared to work with educators, families & our communities to achieve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite waning COVID-19 case levels in the city, the pandemic continues to pose challenges to how schools are run. Beginning on March 14, indoor masking will be optional for the district’s middle and high school students, with elementary schools following suit on April 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some parents of children who are immunocompromised continue to speak out against the policy change, and the new board will certainly be managing how the district responds to any future variants. Frustration over the district’s decision to delay reopening schools during the pandemic was a major factor fueling the recall movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most politically fraught issue facing the new board members, however, is the admissions policy at the city’s elite Lowell High School. It remains to be seen whether the new board will bow to intense pressure from some parents and alumni to reinstate the school’s merit-based admissions policy, or keep in place the new lottery system, which has helped significantly increase the number of Black and Latino students in this year’s freshman class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/why-californias-education-code-does-not-prohibit-academic-admissions-at-lowell-high-school/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arguments from the Lowell Alumni Association\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C9CSB26EC44E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">district has maintained\u003c/a> that a return to admissions based on academic performance would violate state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questionnaires from the supporters of the recall campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/ann-hsu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hsu\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/lainie-motamedi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motamedi\u003c/a> both said they would support reinstating Lowell’s merit-based admissions process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward stopped short of saying where she stood on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a general matter I’ll say I support equity, I support access and I support academically rigorous programs and I think as many people that can be a part of that is what I support,” she said on Friday. “And we probably need to be lifting up and having more schools that are able to allow students to have these academically rigorous programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The results of Tuesday's recall elections against three San Francisco school board members were incontrovertible: Voters overwhelmingly backed the removal of Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens next for the board, the district and school politics in San Francisco, however, is less clear. New school board members will inherit the immediate tasks of managing the district and longer-term challenges of boosting enrollment and student achievement. The sudden fevered interest in local education, meanwhile, could reshape who runs for school board in the future, or fizzle out with the recall over and the pandemic receding.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alida Fisher, San Francisco special education advocate\"]'We've got all these other huge, huge issues that we need to tackle that are absolutely impacting what's happening in our schools, and yet what we're talking about is only these three people on the school board.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staggering changes wrought by the pandemic that abruptly shifted education from the classroom to the living room, and school board meetings from Franklin Street to Zoom, also amplified public interest and engagement in school issues, said Alida Fisher, a special education advocate in San Francisco, who called it \"the blessing and the curse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think that engagement will ever go away as long as we've got more visibility. I think transparency is good, visibility is good,\" said Fisher, a former school board candidate who opposed the recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for too many, she said, the election will be seen as a panacea for the district's plights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got all these other huge, huge issues that we need to tackle that are absolutely impacting what's happening in our schools, and yet what we're talking about is only these three people on the school board,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future direction of the board will be determined in part by Mayor London Breed's selection of three new commissioners, who could take office 10 days after the Board of Supervisors certifies the election results — likely in early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Breed held a press conference outlining her process for selecting the new board members, emphasizing a focus on candidates who could manage the district's finances, and promising to focus on \"all those kids who don't have advocates.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1494185956919840768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">To the chagrin of many recall opponents\u003c/a>, who lamented the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904052/campaign-to-recall-three-san-francisco-school-board-members-vastly-outspending-opposition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vast sums donated by charter and voucher supporters\u003c/a> to the recall campaign, Breed has refused to rule out the appointment of a board member who supports the expansion of charter schools in the city, or the use of public dollars for private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been a lot of different kinds of people who have been involved in the push for this recall from all walks of life,\" Breed said. \"And to attribute it to one group of people is really not fair to the work that so many of the grassroots people who have children in our public school system have done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An early favorite for appointment to the board is Ann Hsu, the president of the Parent Teacher Student Association at Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, Breed's alma mater. As the chair of the district's Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee, she'd take office with knowledge of school finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks leading up to the election, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hsu led the voter registration\u003c/a> drive of hundreds of Chinese American residents, along with noncitizen parents who were able to vote in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905789\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurance Lee speaks during a press conference held by the Chinese/API Voter Outreach Taskforce on Jan. 14, 2021. He fears the city is approaching a 'cliff of interest' in school politics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whoever Breed picks will face two immediate challenges: picking a new superintendent to manage the day-to-day affairs of the district, and dealing with an ongoing budget deficit. On Friday, the board announced it would extend the application deadline for the superintendent job through the end of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s hard to tell how soon these new commissioners can get up to speed on items,\" said Laurance Lee, a recall supporter who writes a newsletter about the Board of Education. \"That's a big concern for me if some of these commissioners are coming in without having followed these meetings in detail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, the district is facing a steady decline in enrollment that could further imperil school funding, which is largely based on attendance. And it must continue to address the longstanding and persistent achievement gaps between white and Asian students and their Black and Latino peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the three seats opened by the recall will go back before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said he fears the city is approaching a \"cliff of interest\" in school politics after a recall election that, while contentious and headline-grabbing, only brought out roughly a third of city voters to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others are more sanguine about the prospects of the recall setting in motion a continued attentiveness to the governance of city schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he ran, unsuccessfully, for the school board in 2018, John Trasviña said he remembers meeting indifferent voters who sometimes mistakenly thought he was already serving as a commissioner. But now he expects that to change, he said.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"sf-school-board-recall\"]\"I think we're going to have a lot more engagement, a lot more attention, a lot more scrutiny,\" said Trasviña, who serves as head of the Lowell High School alumni association, and who rallied against recent efforts to scrap the elite school's merit-based admissions system — among the lightning-rod issues that fueled the recall campaign. \"And really, that's the way it should be. The schools are incredibly important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephine Zhao, another former school board aspirant, said the recall has particularly \"awakened and empowered\" Chinese voters in the city, many of whom were motivated by the admissions changes at majority-Asian Lowell, as well as controversial 2016 tweets written by Collins about Asian Americans. Election returns show stronger support for the recall in majority-Asian neighborhoods such as Chinatown, Visitacion Valley, the Sunset and Portola, as compared to citywide totals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The recall school board movement has actually tapped into some of the anger in the communities, that a lot of the Chinese and AAPI community do not feel that they have the respect from the school board members,\" Zhao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other parents and advocates feel the recall tidal wave will discourage some potential future candidates from pursuing a seat on the board, or wash away the focus that the recalled members placed on pursuing equity for Black and Latino students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Collins, López and Moliga were three of the 19 candidates who ran for school board in San Francisco. Fisher, who also ran that year, remembers dozens more candidates filing initial paperwork to pursue a seat, a reflection of the Trump-era surge of civic participation on the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could the specter of a vitriolic recall campaign add a new deterrent for school board participation — on top of the meager $500 in monthly pay? Fisher worries the board will risk losing \"the teacher, the social worker voice\" that López, Collins and Moliga brought into office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the ouster of those three board members, who championed issues like changing the admissions process at Lowell to boost Black and Latino enrollment, Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, said she's concerned future members won't \"center those populations that have been historically marginalized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we see a swing happening to the center ... where folks don't advance, don't discuss and want to shy and hide away from those issues, from actions that would have visible physical and mental positive impacts on students?\" said Curiel. \"Surely, surely we might see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco voters also will soon have a say in whether the recall process itself will continue to loom as a threat to sitting lawmakers, however rare. A measure placed this week on the June ballot by the Board of Supervisors would add more restrictions to who can be recalled, and prevent any mayoral replacements from immediately running again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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She immediately said she would run again in November during the regularly scheduled school board election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__gutter\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__gutter__right\" role=\"presentation\" data-qa=\"message_content\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_section\">\n\u003cp>\"What I always planned to do was to run for a second term,\" she said at the No on Recall election night party. \"I see in many ways that that is something people hope that I'd still do. It's something I am motivated to do because there is a fight. What we're seeing now is a push against the work we were doing and that's something to continue fighting for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued shortly after the results were published, Moliga conceded, thanking the Pacific Islander community and San Francisco and saying there are \"more fights ahead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FaauugaMoliga/status/1493813354267176960\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday night's results reflected the unique circumstances of each board member's path to the recall ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins, a longtime parent activist and educator, was the leading vote-getter for school board in the 2018 election. But a series of controversial tweets from 2016 that included offensive language and her \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\">subsequent lawsuit against the school district\u003c/a> after being stripped of several leadership positions, garnered her the rebuke of nearly every elected official and political organization in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, the school board president, became the youngest woman elected to office in city history when she won her seat in 2018, at the age of 27. The former teacher campaigned with Collins against the recall effort, and was the lone board member last year to support keeping Collins as vice president of the board after her controversial tweets surfaced. The two have campaigned on their work in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858202/lowells-black-students-and-alumni-push-elite-sf-school-to-confront-history-of-racism\">changing the admissions policy at Lowell\u003c/a> so that it would be more inclusive of Black and Latinx students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moliga, meanwhile, ran his own, separate campaign to keep his job. The social worker was appointed to the board by Mayor London Breed in 2018 and won election shortly thereafter. Breed since \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Mayor-Breed-backs-recall-of-three-San-Francisco-16607126.php\">backed the recall\u003c/a> of the three board members, including Moliga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite voting with López and Collins on controversial issues such as school renaming, Moliga later distanced himself from them, calling for Collins's resignation, arguing that renaming should not have been put on the board's agenda, and appearing by himself — often in forums with recall supporters — on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11900721\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/recall1.png\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall campaign united newly attuned parents, frustrated with the pace of school reopenings and a since-abandoned effort to rename dozens of schools, with existing critics of the board's budget management and decision to drop the merit-based admissions process at Lowell High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the summer, those recall backers had been joined by some of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894065/sf-school-board-recall-funded-mostly-by-local-donors-with-venture-capitalists-topping-the-list\">San Francisco's wealthiest venture capitalists\u003c/a>, who together spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help the campaign expand signature gathering and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">qualify the recall\u003c/a> for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The yes side's largest individual donor was venture capitalist Arthur Rock, who contributed nearly $399,500. Meanwhile, a group called Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, largely backed by wealthy San Francisco investors, gave $458,800 to the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904052/campaign-to-recall-three-san-francisco-school-board-members-vastly-outspending-opposition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">propelled an avalanche of spending\u003c/a> in support of the recall. In the final preelection disclosures made late last week, two pro-recall committees reported collectively spending $1.87 million over the course of the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign fighting the recalls, meanwhile, struggled to keep pace. Backed by donations from the union representing San Francisco teachers and local government employees, the no side spent just over $37,000. Moliga's own campaign committee spent roughly $45,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And donations never materialized from big political players, like statewide teachers unions, which would have allowed the three school board members to compete on the airwaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its burgeoning war chest, the pro-recall campaign was able to saturate cable TV and San Francisco mailboxes with their message. Furthering that cause was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903593/the-sf-school-board-recall-is-motivating-first-time-chinese-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mobilization of many new voters\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Chinese community.[aside postID=\"news_11904873\" hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Montage-2-1020x707.jpg\"]Volunteers with the Chinese/API Voter Outreach Taskforce registered hundreds of new voters, including dozens of noncitizen parents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who were eligible to vote\u003c/a> in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the contentious campaign now over, the board is faced with a litany of immediate challenges. Foremost among them: ensuring fiscal stability in a final district budget set to be adopted in June and the selection of a new superintendent, who is slated to begin work in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is also faced with the longer-term issues of mitigating learning loss that occurred during the pandemic and attempting to reverse the school district's declining enrollment, a factor that threatens to further exacerbate budget issues in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed issued a statement nodding to the challenges ahead. Breed will get to appoint the three board members' replacements, who will need to immediately get to work on hiring a new superintendent to run the district and tackling a huge budget deficit that has put the district on the brink of a state takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The voters of this city have delivered a clear message that the school board must focus on the essentials of delivering a well-run school system above all else,\" Breed stated. \"San Francisco is a city that believes in the value of big ideas, but those ideas must be built on the foundation of a government that does the essentials well. I want to recognize all the parents who tirelessly organized and advocated in the last year. Elections can be difficult, but these parents were fighting for what matters most — their children. The days ahead for our public schools will not be easy.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s no secret that successful political campaigns in San Francisco rely heavily on support from Chinese American voters — and at a time when the city is politically polarized, election results are often decided by razor-thin margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A current campaign to recall three members of the San Francisco Unified School District board is courting this vital demographic by investing in television ads in Mandarin and Cantonese. The ads emphasize issues many people in the Chinese American community care about most: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">a controversial tweet \u003c/a>from one of the targeted school board members, as well as changes to the merit-based admissions policy at Lowell High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s special election board recall is the first recall in San Francisco in nearly 40 years; the last one was a failed attempt to recall then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein in 1983. Chinese American parents and residents have come out in large numbers to help collect signatures to place the recall of San Francisco Board of Education commissioners Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga on Tuesday’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending reports filed with the city detail the pro-recall campaign’s emphasis on reaching Chinese audiences. One campaign committee spent $42,840 to air ads on the Chinese TV station KTSF, along with $11,013 to purchase print ads in the Sing Tao Daily and World Journal newspapers. While not an enormous amount, especially given that their overall donations are approaching $2 million, it does signal who the campaign has identified as a key bloc of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis of ads in the race by KQED and The San Francisco Standard found that the messages, while similar to ads in English, reflect the issues that seem to have driven a high level of political engagement from \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/community/on-the-bay-recall-draws-first-time-chinese-american-voters/\">some segments of the city’s Chinese community\u003c/a>: the school board’s failures to more quickly reopen schools, and time spent discussing the renaming of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some content is tailor-made for Chinese audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Ads in favor of the recall\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>TV ads\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, López, and Moliga group has released \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp5-6MZ73hTFLB0gm7lY-fA\">a series of video ads\u003c/a> in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The English versions mainly feature school parents and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhUm5fmXWUo\">city leaders\u003c/a> trying to persuade people to vote yes, with reasons including delays in reopening schools, the district’s budget deficit and the school renaming controversies. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6tSWAan98o\">Spanish\u003c/a> version, featuring a Mexican immigrant parent, delivers a similar message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscfKPVLkOU\">Mandarin video\u003c/a>, featuring Chinese American immigrant and public school parent Ann Hsu, specifically mentions the controversial tweets by Alison Collins and the Lowell High School admissions policy change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904954\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904954 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Alison-Collins-Screen-Shot-2022-02-07-at-12.38.56-PM-e1644628202418.png\" alt=\"Screen grab of School Board member Alison Collins in pro-recall ad\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen grab from pro-recall ad.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ad cited an SF Gate \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Alison-Collins-San-Francisco-school-Asians-tweets-16038855.php\">article\u003c/a> dated March 2021: “Alison Collins’s tweet refers to Asians as Black house slaves,” which is a translation they used for “house N-word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, who is fluent in both English and Mandarin, also appeared in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLgNdU53qJQ\">an English-language ad\u003c/a>, but the criticism in this message focuses on the reopening and renaming of schools, not the controversial tweets or Lowell. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/ngsofgsnvkkdle1/Parent-Cantonese-30-s1v5-ChineseSubs-DigitalKMM.mp4?dl=0\">Cantonese video ad\u003c/a> is also different from the Mandarin version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kit Lam, an outspoken public school father from Hong Kong who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/Meet-the-S-F-dad-working-on-the-school-board-16250710.php#photo-21128990\">caught on video\u003c/a> trying to stop the alleged theft of recall petitions, is featured in the Cantonese ad. In the video, he expresses his anger about the pandemic closures and renaming of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904957\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1844px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904957 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen grab of Kit Lam from a pro-recall video ad\" width=\"1844\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM.png 1844w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM-800x442.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM-1020x563.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM-160x88.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM-1536x848.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM-672x372.png 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1844px) 100vw, 1844px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen grab of Kit Lam in pro-recall ad.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Radio ads\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The official recall campaign, Recall School Board Members López, Collins & Moliga, has released three Cantonese radio ads airing on local Chinese radio stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the three, one focuses on Lowell, one emphasizes the financial crisis faced by the school district and the other asks eligible voters to register. The ads note they were paid for by the committee with the main sources of funding coming from venture capitalist David Sacks and businessperson Arthur Rock. The latter is a vocal supporter of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Newspaper ads\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, 2022, a print ad supporting the recall appeared in The World Journal, a major Chinese-language newspaper in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1304px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904956 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Jan18.png\" alt=\"Chinese language ad in support of recalling SFUSD board members\" width=\"1304\" height=\"1132\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Jan18.png 1304w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Jan18-800x694.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Jan18-1020x885.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Jan18-160x139.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1304px) 100vw, 1304px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newspaper ad by Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, López, and Moliga in favor of the recall.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ad, placed by Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, López, and Moliga, features an upset child in front of a laptop — the reference is to remote learning during the pandemic-related school building closures. The ad also mentions Collins’s tweet, Lowell High School, the financial crisis and the $87 million lawsuit she filed against the school district and her board colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Ads opposing the recall\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An ad funded by the campaigns against the recall is much smaller and vastly different from the well-funded supporter side. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/elections/mapping-the-school-board-recall/\">With limited resources\u003c/a>, the opposition has few Chinese-language ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb style=\"font-size: 22px\">Door hanger\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904955\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 748px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904955 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-door-ads.jpeg\" alt=\"Door hanger against the recall\" width=\"748\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-door-ads.jpeg 748w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-door-ads-160x270.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Door hanger ad opposed to the recall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SF Standard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The door hangers against the recall, paid for by the committee No On Recalls of School Board Commissioners López, Collins and Moliga, are widely distributed in San Francisco and have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/NoSBRecalls/posts/121730550381476\">Chinese-language version\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oppose the Recall of School Board,” the title reads. The messaging focuses on the school board as comprising teachers, parents and community organizers; say they “keep us safe” and “fight for the resources we want”; and say “we need resources, not recalls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Newspaper ad\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfberniecrats.com/about/\">San Francisco Berniecrats\u003c/a>, a political club formed in 2016, placed an ad in a Chinese-language newspaper in mid-January, opposing the recall of the three members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904969\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904969 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-SF-Berniecrats-Jan17-2022-e1644626457165.png\" alt=\"Anti-school board recall ad targeting Chinese American voters\" width=\"1920\" height=\"875\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newspaper ad against the recall by SF Berniecrats.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two headlines on the right column read “Oppose the Recall, Support the Democracy” and “Recall wastes public dollars, attacks public education.” The first paragraph compares the school board recall to the attempted recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021. The ad blames the school board recall on a campaign that hired signature gatherers with good pay — as much as $22 per signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second paragraph says that if the recall is successful, Mayor London Breed will appoint the replacements: “This is not real democracy!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same ad, the group also endorses David Campos for the state Assembly race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moliga, who is running his own campaign against the recall, said his campaign has been speaking directly with Chinese and AAPI communities, without using paid ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our campaign is fortunate to have these long-standing relationships in the AAPI community that are helping us fight this attempt to recall me,” Moliga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: This story is part of a collaboration between KQED and Han Li of \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\">The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a> to cover the school board recall election. Han Li can be reached at \u003ca href=\"mailto:han@sfstandard.com\">han@sfstandard.com\u003c/a> or on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lihanlihan\">@lihanlihan\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s no secret that successful political campaigns in San Francisco rely heavily on support from Chinese American voters — and at a time when the city is politically polarized, election results are often decided by razor-thin margins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A current campaign to recall three members of the San Francisco Unified School District board is courting this vital demographic by investing in television ads in Mandarin and Cantonese. The ads emphasize issues many people in the Chinese American community care about most: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">a controversial tweet \u003c/a>from one of the targeted school board members, as well as changes to the merit-based admissions policy at Lowell High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s special election board recall is the first recall in San Francisco in nearly 40 years; the last one was a failed attempt to recall then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein in 1983. Chinese American parents and residents have come out in large numbers to help collect signatures to place the recall of San Francisco Board of Education commissioners Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga on Tuesday’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending reports filed with the city detail the pro-recall campaign’s emphasis on reaching Chinese audiences. One campaign committee spent $42,840 to air ads on the Chinese TV station KTSF, along with $11,013 to purchase print ads in the Sing Tao Daily and World Journal newspapers. While not an enormous amount, especially given that their overall donations are approaching $2 million, it does signal who the campaign has identified as a key bloc of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An analysis of ads in the race by KQED and The San Francisco Standard found that the messages, while similar to ads in English, reflect the issues that seem to have driven a high level of political engagement from \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/community/on-the-bay-recall-draws-first-time-chinese-american-voters/\">some segments of the city’s Chinese community\u003c/a>: the school board’s failures to more quickly reopen schools, and time spent discussing the renaming of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some content is tailor-made for Chinese audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Ads in favor of the recall\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>TV ads\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, López, and Moliga group has released \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp5-6MZ73hTFLB0gm7lY-fA\">a series of video ads\u003c/a> in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The English versions mainly feature school parents and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhUm5fmXWUo\">city leaders\u003c/a> trying to persuade people to vote yes, with reasons including delays in reopening schools, the district’s budget deficit and the school renaming controversies. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6tSWAan98o\">Spanish\u003c/a> version, featuring a Mexican immigrant parent, delivers a similar message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscfKPVLkOU\">Mandarin video\u003c/a>, featuring Chinese American immigrant and public school parent Ann Hsu, specifically mentions the controversial tweets by Alison Collins and the Lowell High School admissions policy change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904954\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904954 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Alison-Collins-Screen-Shot-2022-02-07-at-12.38.56-PM-e1644628202418.png\" alt=\"Screen grab of School Board member Alison Collins in pro-recall ad\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen grab from pro-recall ad.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ad cited an SF Gate \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Alison-Collins-San-Francisco-school-Asians-tweets-16038855.php\">article\u003c/a> dated March 2021: “Alison Collins’s tweet refers to Asians as Black house slaves,” which is a translation they used for “house N-word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, who is fluent in both English and Mandarin, also appeared in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLgNdU53qJQ\">an English-language ad\u003c/a>, but the criticism in this message focuses on the reopening and renaming of schools, not the controversial tweets or Lowell. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/s/ngsofgsnvkkdle1/Parent-Cantonese-30-s1v5-ChineseSubs-DigitalKMM.mp4?dl=0\">Cantonese video ad\u003c/a> is also different from the Mandarin version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kit Lam, an outspoken public school father from Hong Kong who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/Meet-the-S-F-dad-working-on-the-school-board-16250710.php#photo-21128990\">caught on video\u003c/a> trying to stop the alleged theft of recall petitions, is featured in the Cantonese ad. In the video, he expresses his anger about the pandemic closures and renaming of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904957\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1844px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904957 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen grab of Kit Lam from a pro-recall video ad\" width=\"1844\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM.png 1844w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM-800x442.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM-1020x563.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM-160x88.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM-1536x848.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Screen-Shot-2022-02-09-at-3.14.48-PM-672x372.png 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1844px) 100vw, 1844px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen grab of Kit Lam in pro-recall ad.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Radio ads\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The official recall campaign, Recall School Board Members López, Collins & Moliga, has released three Cantonese radio ads airing on local Chinese radio stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the three, one focuses on Lowell, one emphasizes the financial crisis faced by the school district and the other asks eligible voters to register. The ads note they were paid for by the committee with the main sources of funding coming from venture capitalist David Sacks and businessperson Arthur Rock. The latter is a vocal supporter of charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Newspaper ads\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, 2022, a print ad supporting the recall appeared in The World Journal, a major Chinese-language newspaper in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1304px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904956 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Jan18.png\" alt=\"Chinese language ad in support of recalling SFUSD board members\" width=\"1304\" height=\"1132\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Jan18.png 1304w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Jan18-800x694.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Jan18-1020x885.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-Jan18-160x139.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1304px) 100vw, 1304px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newspaper ad by Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, López, and Moliga in favor of the recall.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ad, placed by Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, López, and Moliga, features an upset child in front of a laptop — the reference is to remote learning during the pandemic-related school building closures. The ad also mentions Collins’s tweet, Lowell High School, the financial crisis and the $87 million lawsuit she filed against the school district and her board colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Ads opposing the recall\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An ad funded by the campaigns against the recall is much smaller and vastly different from the well-funded supporter side. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/elections/mapping-the-school-board-recall/\">With limited resources\u003c/a>, the opposition has few Chinese-language ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb style=\"font-size: 22px\">Door hanger\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904955\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 748px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904955 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-door-ads.jpeg\" alt=\"Door hanger against the recall\" width=\"748\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-door-ads.jpeg 748w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-door-ads-160x270.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Door hanger ad opposed to the recall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SF Standard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The door hangers against the recall, paid for by the committee No On Recalls of School Board Commissioners López, Collins and Moliga, are widely distributed in San Francisco and have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/NoSBRecalls/posts/121730550381476\">Chinese-language version\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oppose the Recall of School Board,” the title reads. The messaging focuses on the school board as comprising teachers, parents and community organizers; say they “keep us safe” and “fight for the resources we want”; and say “we need resources, not recalls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Newspaper ad\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfberniecrats.com/about/\">San Francisco Berniecrats\u003c/a>, a political club formed in 2016, placed an ad in a Chinese-language newspaper in mid-January, opposing the recall of the three members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904969\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904969 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/SF-Recall-SF-Berniecrats-Jan17-2022-e1644626457165.png\" alt=\"Anti-school board recall ad targeting Chinese American voters\" width=\"1920\" height=\"875\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newspaper ad against the recall by SF Berniecrats.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two headlines on the right column read “Oppose the Recall, Support the Democracy” and “Recall wastes public dollars, attacks public education.” The first paragraph compares the school board recall to the attempted recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021. The ad blames the school board recall on a campaign that hired signature gatherers with good pay — as much as $22 per signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second paragraph says that if the recall is successful, Mayor London Breed will appoint the replacements: “This is not real democracy!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same ad, the group also endorses David Campos for the state Assembly race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moliga, who is running his own campaign against the recall, said his campaign has been speaking directly with Chinese and AAPI communities, without using paid ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our campaign is fortunate to have these long-standing relationships in the AAPI community that are helping us fight this attempt to recall me,” Moliga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Still need to vote in San Francisco's special election? You're not alone. As of Thursday, only about \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfelections.org/tools/election_data/vbm_turnout.php\">20% of voters in the city have cast ballots\u003c/a> in an election that features a recall against three school board members, an election for state Assembly and a vote on the city's unopposed assessor-recorder position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last day to vote is Tuesday, Feb. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news: If you live in San Francisco, you've already been sent a ballot to the address where you're registered to vote. Those ballots can be returned in the mail (postage is already paid) or dropped off at one of \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/new-service-return-your-ballot-official-ballot-drop-box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">34 drop boxes\u003c/a> around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to vote in person at City Hall, here are the voting hours:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fri., Feb. 11: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.\u003cbr>\nSat., Feb. 12: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.\u003cbr>\nSun., Feb. 13: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.\u003cbr>\nMon., Feb. 14: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.\u003cbr>\nTues., Feb. 15: 7 a.m.-8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a summary of the three contests on the ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>SFUSD school board recalls\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Three members of San Francisco's Board of Education — Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga — are facing recalls. The recall questions about each member appear separately on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\">Noncitizen parents also are allowed to vote\u003c/a> on this issue. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902654/sf-school-board-recall-how-to-vote-as-a-noncitizen-parent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here's how to vote as a noncitizen parent\u003c/a> if you have a child in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did the traditionally overlooked school board become the focus of intense political debate?\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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Here's a timeline of key events that led to the recalls. \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the recalls \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gathered tens of thousands of signatures\u003c/a> to put the political fate of Collins, López and Moliga on the ballot — arguing that the three displayed incompetence in their management of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reopening classrooms\u003c/a>, the district's budget and the renaming of dozens of schools, and that \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\">Collins's derogatory tweets aimed at Asian Americans and subsequent lawsuit against the board\u003c/a> are further grounds for her removal. Recall advocates say new board members are needed to face the immediate challenges of picking a new superintendent and ensuring fiscal stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the recall say the campaign is \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\">pulling attention away from the district's students\u003c/a> just months before a regularly scheduled election. Allies of the board members say the recall is trying to depose three officials who have delivered gains for Black and Latino students, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858202/lowells-black-students-and-alumni-push-elite-sf-school-to-confront-history-of-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diversifying Lowell High School\u003c/a> by moving away from a merit-based admissions policy. A successful recall, opponents say, will remove voter control of the school board by giving Mayor London Breed her pick of replacement board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903279/san-franciscos-school-board-recall-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Dive deeper into the key issues at stake in the school board recall by listening to an election preview on The Bay. \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State Assembly, District 17\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Only voters on San Francisco's east side, including neighborhoods like the Mission, Castro and Bayview, will vote in this election for state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seat opened up when four-term Assemblymember David Chiu was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890009/mayor-breed-names-assemblymember-david-chiu-as-sf-city-attorney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appointed city attorney\u003c/a>. Four Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890455/david-chius-seat-in-california-assembly-already-has-candidates-lining-up-for-special-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jumped in the race to replace Chiu\u003c/a>: former Supervisor David Campos, current Supervisor Matt Haney, entrepreneur Bilal Mahmood and City College trustee Thea Selby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If no candidate receives a majority of votes, a runoff between the top two finishers will be held on April 19. This seat also will be on the ballot in June, when candidates can run for a full term in a slightly redrawn district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10346232/san-francisco-assembly-race-expected-to-be-tight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">narrowly lost a run\u003c/a> for this seat in 2014, most recently served as chief of staff to District Attorney Chesa Boudin. He comes from the progressive flank of San Francisco's Democratic Party, and has been endorsed by local and state teachers unions. Campos said the first bill he would introduce in the Assembly would be legislation to pursue a single-payer health care system in California, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903440/single-payer-health-care-faces-uphill-battle-in-state-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">idea that recently stalled\u003c/a> in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney has served on the Board of Supervisors since 2019, representing neighborhoods including SOMA and the Tenderloin. Before that, he was a member of the San Francisco school board. Unions representing construction trade workers are supporting Haney, who has promised to support laws making it harder for local governments to block new housing from being built. Like Campos, Haney supports only the recall of school board member Alison Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood founded the analytics start-up ClearBrain and previously worked in the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Obama administration. His plans to ease housing development have earned him the endorsement of San Francisco's YIMBY group. In a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/CRNweGMrTrE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">candidate debate focused on public education\u003c/a>, Mahmood was the only candidate to unequivocally support mandating vaccines for California schoolchildren, with no exemption for personal beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selby has touted herself as the \"public safety\" candidate in recent weeks, citing her work in starting the Lower Haight Merchants and Neighbors Association and local art walks to boost foot traffic and improve neighborhood safety. Now, Selby serves on the board of trustees of City College of San Francisco, which oversees the community college. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a summary of the three contests on the ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>SFUSD school board recalls\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Three members of San Francisco's Board of Education — Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga — are facing recalls. The recall questions about each member appear separately on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\">Noncitizen parents also are allowed to vote\u003c/a> on this issue. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902654/sf-school-board-recall-how-to-vote-as-a-noncitizen-parent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here's how to vote as a noncitizen parent\u003c/a> if you have a child in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did the traditionally overlooked school board become the focus of intense political debate?\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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Here's a timeline of key events that led to the recalls. \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the recalls \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gathered tens of thousands of signatures\u003c/a> to put the political fate of Collins, López and Moliga on the ballot — arguing that the three displayed incompetence in their management of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reopening classrooms\u003c/a>, the district's budget and the renaming of dozens of schools, and that \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\">Collins's derogatory tweets aimed at Asian Americans and subsequent lawsuit against the board\u003c/a> are further grounds for her removal. Recall advocates say new board members are needed to face the immediate challenges of picking a new superintendent and ensuring fiscal stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the recall say the campaign is \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\">pulling attention away from the district's students\u003c/a> just months before a regularly scheduled election. Allies of the board members say the recall is trying to depose three officials who have delivered gains for Black and Latino students, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858202/lowells-black-students-and-alumni-push-elite-sf-school-to-confront-history-of-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diversifying Lowell High School\u003c/a> by moving away from a merit-based admissions policy. A successful recall, opponents say, will remove voter control of the school board by giving Mayor London Breed her pick of replacement board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903279/san-franciscos-school-board-recall-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Dive deeper into the key issues at stake in the school board recall by listening to an election preview on The Bay. \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State Assembly, District 17\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Only voters on San Francisco's east side, including neighborhoods like the Mission, Castro and Bayview, will vote in this election for state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seat opened up when four-term Assemblymember David Chiu was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890009/mayor-breed-names-assemblymember-david-chiu-as-sf-city-attorney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appointed city attorney\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903279/san-franciscos-school-board-recall-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">campaign to recall three San Francisco school board members\u003c/a> in a Feb. 15 special election is vastly outspending its opponents, according to filings made public on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With just over a week until voting ends, the financial advantage of the pro-recall campaign, which is made up of two separate committees, has enabled it to flood San Francisco mailboxes, airwaves and even streaming platforms like Hulu with arguments to remove board members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the end of last week, those two committees reported spending a total of $1.75 million, nearly half of that in January alone. Meanwhile, the two separate anti-recall campaigns (one solely fighting the removal of Moliga) collectively spent just $68,110.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall supporters started campaigning much earlier than their opponents, giving them a major head start in building a financial war chest. The first of the pro-recall groups, led by Autumn Looijen and Siva Raj, raised cash beginning in the spring of 2021, from a mix of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894065/sf-school-board-recall-funded-mostly-by-local-donors-with-venture-capitalists-topping-the-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wealthy venture capitalists and small-dollar donors\u003c/a>, helping them pay for an army of signature gatherers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">qualify the three recall questions for the ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the two campaigns opposing the recall didn’t begin raising money in earnest until November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same month, a second pro-recall campaign committee, Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, López, and Moliga, was formed with a focus on recruiting and spending big dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest contributor to the Concerned Parents group is the political group Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, which has given $458,800. That group’s largest donor is William Oberndorf, a San Francisco-based investor and \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/this-is-the-civil-rights-issue-of-our-time-philanthropist-bill-oberndorf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advocate for school voucher systems in states across the country\u003c/a>, in which government funds could be used to attend private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"sf-school-board-recall\"]The largest individual pro-recall donor so far is venture capitalist Arthur Rock, a charter school proponent who has given nearly $400,000 to the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall questions are listed on the ballot as “measures,” a specific designation that allows unlimited fundraising and spending on their behalf. Those rules have opened the door for the pro-recall campaigns to spend far in excess of the traditionally low-dollar contributions in school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put that in perspective: The 38 candidates who ran for school board in San Francisco across four elections, from 2016 to 2020, collectively spent $1.05 million — 60% less than the $1.75 million the pro-recall campaigns have so far spent on this single election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest payout thus far has been $289,708 to Comcast, for the airing of pro-recall ads on stations including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ESPN and HGTV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spending files also show the pro-recall campaign’s focus on spreading its message to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903593/the-sf-school-board-recall-is-motivating-first-time-chinese-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese-language voters\u003c/a>. 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. Bernie Sanders, also spent $5,000 in opposition to the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking the resources to put their message on the airwaves, that campaign has spent roughly $27,213 on items including door hangers, window signs and mailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Commissioner Moliga has reported spending a total of $40,896 on\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899172/in-sf-school-board-recall-moliga-charts-separate-path-and-local-politicos-take-notice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> his own separate campaign to save his job\u003c/a>, largely to pay for campaign literature, mailings and printing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pro-recall campaign committees ended the reporting period, on Jan. 29, with a combined $162,110 on hand, compared with $11,214 for the two anti-recall campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Correction: in the initial version of this story, KTSF was described as a radio station. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selena Chu tightened up her double mask and braved the omicron threat on a recent sunny Saturday to join a volunteer event in support of the recall of three San Francisco school board members.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I’m here with the Chinese-language voter registration form to encourage them. ‘Hey, have you signed up? If you haven’t, this is your chance. I can help you,’” said Chu, a Chinese immigrant and a public school parent.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chu, along with many Asian community activists, sees the passion ignited by the school board recall as an opportunity to fight apathy among Chinese San Franciscans who are eligible to vote but don’t.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recall supporters are confident they have heavy support in the Chinese American community. One of the board members facing a recall, Alison Collins, made comments on Twitter that appeared to be anti-Asian, and many Asian parents, including Chu, are against efforts to end merit-based admissions at the elite Lowell High School, where Asian students are the majority. The three board members also are blamed for failing to reopen schools until more than a year into the pandemic.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Todd David, director, Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, Lopez, and Moliga\"]‘Supervisor Mar and Supervisor Chan have different rules for themselves than they do for people who, you know, volunteer their time at farmers markets to go collect signatures.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet San Francisco’s top Asian American public officials are not on the same page — and don’t much want to talk about it. Supervisors Gordon Mar and Connie Chan, along with Assemblymember Phil Ting, all called on Collins to resign after her controversial tweets were publicized. But none of them supports the recall of Collins and her two colleagues, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ting declined to make himself available for an interview. In a text, he said, “I have not taken a position on the recall outside of my call to have Allison Collins resign.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supervisor Chan’s team, given a choice of four days for an interview, said she was too busy on all of those days. She said in a statement that she opposed all recalls.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supervisor Mar agreed with Chan. He said, “It was not an appropriate use of the recall process when we have these three school board members up for reelection just later this year.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former Assembly member David Chiu said he would not take a position on the issue now that he is city attorney. In fact the City Charter explicitly prohibits the city attorney from taking positions on or raising money for ballot measures or candidate elections other than their own.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of the four is eager to advertise their positions, though: T\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heir names do not appear on the “No on Recalls of School Board Commissioners Lopez, Collins and Moliga” campaign website.\u003c/span>[aside postID=\"news_11903279,news_11902654,news_11900721\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Todd David, who’s running a well-funded committee called “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=sfo\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, Lopez, and Moliga\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,” criticized elected officials who try to have it both ways — calling on Collins to resign, while declining to endorse the recall.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Supervisor Mar and Supervisor Chan have different rules for themselves than they do for people who, you know, volunteer their time at farmers markets to go collect signatures,” David said. “I just find that argument bizarre.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For her part, Collins, in an interview with KQED’s Vanessa Rancaño in November, insisted she is a victim of hate, not a perpetrator. She sees it as part of a larger right-wing plot. “All of a sudden it’s on Fox News. And this is all very, very organized activity that’s been happening on a national level and it’s highly funded,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco Board of Education President Gabriela López also dismissed some of the criticisms she and her colleagues are facing in the recall campaign, including that they acted too slowly in reopening the schools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“But this sense of just returning to return because of the pressure that people were giving us, or the fact that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the city sued the school district\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> — which I still disagree with — and trying to push these efforts to appease a voter base that honestly wasn’t impacted by the pandemic in as many ways as other communities were who didn’t want to return, is all political,” López told KQED in October. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The fact that people keep pointing to the renaming issue is another, for me, excuse to kind of point to that fact. And I say that because the renaming work had begun before members were even on the board. It was passed by a previous school board a couple of years back, and work had begun on a topic that hadn’t been finalized yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having raised just $12,631 last year, the campaign opposing the recall said they’re hoping to reach voters through person-to-person contact within existing networks of parents and teachers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We’re not able to depend on TV ads and mailers,” said Tara Ramos, a co-chair of the No campaign. “So we’re just doing a lot of footwork, getting out there, talking to our own community at our school sites and our neighborhoods.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moliga has opted to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899172/in-sf-school-board-recall-moliga-charts-separate-path-and-local-politicos-take-notice\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> run a separate campaign\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, raising $35,500 and relying largely on appearances at local Democratic clubs and community forums to spread his message. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The relationships are already there,” said Moliga. “I’ve done plenty of work being on the school board with the Chinese community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moliga touted a recent visit he took to Chinatown to meet with members of the Chinese Progressive Association and students who helped create the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2019-07-02/sf-high-school-students-seek-improved-mental-health-services\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Healing in Our Hands” initiative\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The policy was passed by the school board in 2019 to improve wellness services, particularly for Asian American students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voter outreach ahead of the recall vote, Moliga said, will rely on these existing networks of support. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I could probably go out there and pull 5,000 votes, 5,000 people who know me just because I’m from this city,” Moliga added. “I can go to Chinatown, I can go to the Richmond district.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City at a turning point\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Lee, executive director of the Chinese American Voter Education Committee, sees dissatisfaction with the school board as just one of the numerous urgent issues facing the community. Standing in Portsmouth Square — “the living room of Chinatown,” Lee said — he pointed to the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes and the pandemic-flattened economy, noting the absence of people in the square just a few days from Chinese New Year celebrations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“To see Chinatown boarded up, we’re lacking in the kind of vibrancy that you would normally see at this time of year,” Lee said. “It is a true indication of the frustrations of the Asian American community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time ever, Lee’s organization produced a “get out the vote” video in Mandarin and Cantonese, with Ting, Chan and Chiu. “Because we feel that the city is at a turning point, the Asian American community, particularly the Chinese American community, feels that the city is headed in the wrong direction,” he said, adding that many see the Feb. 15 election as a chance to change course.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data shows that supporters of the school board recall are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Who-is-supporting-the-S-F-Board-of-Education-16779875.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">highly concentrated on the city’s west side\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where most of the precincts have majority Asian, including Chinese, households.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grassroots Chinese/API Voter Outreach Taskforce, which formed after the recall qualified for the ballot, said it has registered 430 new Asian American voters just since mid-December, including 330 first-time voters and 100 noncitizen parents who are eligible to vote in local school board elections.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the well-organized recall supporters are confident of victory, the future is still filled with uncertainty for many parents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allene Jue, a San Francisco mom with two toddlers, is now struggling to choose between public and private kindergarten. “My kids are not even in public school, but it’s important for me to stay involved,” Jue said, adding that she’s been paying extra attention to local politics, and the recall movement really “resonated” with her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I did graduate from Lowell,” said Jue, who considers herself a proud public school product. But now she feels being Asian is “not welcomed” in the school district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KQED’s Guy Marzorati contributed to this story.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">This article has been updated to identify restrictions placed on the city attorney by the City Charter.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Note: This story is part of a collaboration between KQED and Han Li of \u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://sfstandard.com/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"> to cover the school board recall election. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Todd David, who’s running a well-funded committee called “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=sfo\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, Lopez, and Moliga\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,” criticized elected officials who try to have it both ways — calling on Collins to resign, while declining to endorse the recall.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Supervisor Mar and Supervisor Chan have different rules for themselves than they do for people who, you know, volunteer their time at farmers markets to go collect signatures,” David said. “I just find that argument bizarre.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For her part, Collins, in an interview with KQED’s Vanessa Rancaño in November, insisted she is a victim of hate, not a perpetrator. She sees it as part of a larger right-wing plot. “All of a sudden it’s on Fox News. And this is all very, very organized activity that’s been happening on a national level and it’s highly funded,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco Board of Education President Gabriela López also dismissed some of the criticisms she and her colleagues are facing in the recall campaign, including that they acted too slowly in reopening the schools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“But this sense of just returning to return because of the pressure that people were giving us, or the fact that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the city sued the school district\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> — which I still disagree with — and trying to push these efforts to appease a voter base that honestly wasn’t impacted by the pandemic in as many ways as other communities were who didn’t want to return, is all political,” López told KQED in October. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The fact that people keep pointing to the renaming issue is another, for me, excuse to kind of point to that fact. And I say that because the renaming work had begun before members were even on the board. It was passed by a previous school board a couple of years back, and work had begun on a topic that hadn’t been finalized yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having raised just $12,631 last year, the campaign opposing the recall said they’re hoping to reach voters through person-to-person contact within existing networks of parents and teachers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We’re not able to depend on TV ads and mailers,” said Tara Ramos, a co-chair of the No campaign. “So we’re just doing a lot of footwork, getting out there, talking to our own community at our school sites and our neighborhoods.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moliga has opted to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899172/in-sf-school-board-recall-moliga-charts-separate-path-and-local-politicos-take-notice\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> run a separate campaign\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, raising $35,500 and relying largely on appearances at local Democratic clubs and community forums to spread his message. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The relationships are already there,” said Moliga. “I’ve done plenty of work being on the school board with the Chinese community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moliga touted a recent visit he took to Chinatown to meet with members of the Chinese Progressive Association and students who helped create the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2019-07-02/sf-high-school-students-seek-improved-mental-health-services\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Healing in Our Hands” initiative\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The policy was passed by the school board in 2019 to improve wellness services, particularly for Asian American students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voter outreach ahead of the recall vote, Moliga said, will rely on these existing networks of support. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I could probably go out there and pull 5,000 votes, 5,000 people who know me just because I’m from this city,” Moliga added. “I can go to Chinatown, I can go to the Richmond district.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City at a turning point\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Lee, executive director of the Chinese American Voter Education Committee, sees dissatisfaction with the school board as just one of the numerous urgent issues facing the community. Standing in Portsmouth Square — “the living room of Chinatown,” Lee said — he pointed to the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes and the pandemic-flattened economy, noting the absence of people in the square just a few days from Chinese New Year celebrations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“To see Chinatown boarded up, we’re lacking in the kind of vibrancy that you would normally see at this time of year,” Lee said. “It is a true indication of the frustrations of the Asian American community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time ever, Lee’s organization produced a “get out the vote” video in Mandarin and Cantonese, with Ting, Chan and Chiu. “Because we feel that the city is at a turning point, the Asian American community, particularly the Chinese American community, feels that the city is headed in the wrong direction,” he said, adding that many see the Feb. 15 election as a chance to change course.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data shows that supporters of the school board recall are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Who-is-supporting-the-S-F-Board-of-Education-16779875.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">highly concentrated on the city’s west side\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where most of the precincts have majority Asian, including Chinese, households.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grassroots Chinese/API Voter Outreach Taskforce, which formed after the recall qualified for the ballot, said it has registered 430 new Asian American voters just since mid-December, including 330 first-time voters and 100 noncitizen parents who are eligible to vote in local school board elections.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the well-organized recall supporters are confident of victory, the future is still filled with uncertainty for many parents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allene Jue, a San Francisco mom with two toddlers, is now struggling to choose between public and private kindergarten. “My kids are not even in public school, but it’s important for me to stay involved,” Jue said, adding that she’s been paying extra attention to local politics, and the recall movement really “resonated” with her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I did graduate from Lowell,” said Jue, who considers herself a proud public school product. But now she feels being Asian is “not welcomed” in the school district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KQED’s Guy Marzorati contributed to this story.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">This article has been updated to identify restrictions placed on the city attorney by the City Charter.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Note: This story is part of a collaboration between KQED and Han Li of \u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://sfstandard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://sfstandard.com/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"> to cover the school board recall election. 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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#register\">\u003cstrong>Skip ahead to information on how to register for the school board recall election as a noncitizen.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11903103/como-votar-en-la-eleccion-revocatoria-del-consejo-escolar-de-san-francisco-si-usted-es-padre-no-ciudadano\">\u003cem>Leer en español.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San Franciscans who are not citizens can vote in the upcoming \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sf-school-board-recall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sf-school-board-recall\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">recall election of school board members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a city law approved by voters in 2016, parents and guardians of students in the San Francisco Unified School District can participate in school board elections, regardless of immigration status. For a parent to be eligible to vote, they must have at least one child that’s 19 years old or younger.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Angela Zhou, a noncitizen registrant\"]‘I’m very happy to have the opportunity to vote. It will be my first time to vote in the United States and I feel very lucky.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the city’s Board of Supervisors made the law permanent for all future school board votes, allowing noncitizen parents like Angela Zhou to vote in the February election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been a resident of San Francisco for about 20 years but not yet a U.S. citizen,” said Zhou,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\"> at a press conference held by a volunteer group focused on registering Asian voters\u003c/a>. “I’m very happy to have the opportunity to vote. It will be my first time to vote in the United States and I feel very lucky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of limited voting rights for some noncitizens is gaining traction: \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\">New York will allow legal residents to vote in municipal elections\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901435/give-us-a-chance-non-citizens-in-san-jose-could-potentially-be-allowed-to-vote\">San Jose is studying the idea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocacy and community groups across San Francisco are already mobilizing to get noncitizens registered. As of Tuesday, a record 122 people are registered as noncitizens to vote in the Board of Education recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are answers to some common questions about San Francisco’s program. Click the links below to skip to a specific section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#recall\">\u003cstrong>What is the SF school board recall election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#receive\">\u003cstrong>Why did I receive info in the mail about voting when I am not a citizen?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#register\">\u003cstrong>How do I register to vote through this program?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#counted\">\u003cstrong>Are noncitizen votes counted differently from those of citizens?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#information\">\u003cstrong>Where is this information going to go? Will my information be shared with other government agencies like ICE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#future\">\u003cstrong>Will participating in this election affect my immigration application in the future?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"recall\">\u003c/a>What is the SF school board recall election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 15, there’ll be a vote on whether to recall three San Francisco Board of Education commissioners: Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters can choose to recall one, two, all three or none of these officials. If any of the three board members is recalled, San Francisco Mayor London Breed would appoint their replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote will be the first ballot recall of a San Francisco official in nearly 40 years, after organizers in support of the recall election last year submitted far more than the 51,325 signatures per member required to force a vote.\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\">Read more about the timeline that led to this SF school board recall election, and what’s at stake.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"receive\">\u003c/a>Why did I receive info in the mail about voting when I am not a citizen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before each election, San Francisco’s Department of Elections sends out voting information to every household in the city. These mailers, which contain information about noncitizen voting, are sent to homes and apartments regardless of who resides in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone who lives in San Francisco, they’re receiving a mailer before the election, indicating how they can, if they’re not citizens, get more information and participate in the election,” said John Arntz, the department’s director. “We don’t know who the noncitizens are, so we’re not contacting them individually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arntz said his department is hoping to raise awareness about noncitizen voting through ads in local newspapers. A group of nonprofits have formed the\u003ca href=\"https://www.missiongraduates.org/parent-partner-program-celebrates-immigrant-parents-at-the-polls/\"> Immigrant Parent Voting Collaborative\u003c/a>, a multilingual coalition working to spread the word to noncitizens about their voting rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our work continues in ensuring that immigrant families know about and make their own decisions on exercising this newly permanent voting right,” said Eva Poon, policy manager for Chinese for Affirmative Action, in a statement celebrating the move to make noncitizen voting permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"register\">\u003c/a>How do I register to vote through this program?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Make sure to complete and submit a Non-Citizen Voter Registration Form. The form is available online in \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_ENG.pdf\">English\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_CH.pdf\">Chinese\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_SP.pdf\">Spanish\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_FI.pdf\">Tagalog\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/VoterEducation/2022February/NCV_VRC_Arabic.pdf\">Arabic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/non-citizen-registration-and-voting\">over 40 other languages\u003c/a>. The full list of \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/non-citizen-registration-and-voting\">forms you can print is available here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The registration form asks you to share your name and address, and includes optional questions where you can share your email, phone number and country of birth. You do not need to share your immigration status or information about your children.[aside postID=\"news_11901813,news_11900721,news_11897089\" label=\"MORE RECALL COVERAGE\"]Once you’ve filled out the form, you can present the form in person at the Department of Elections office in City Hall or mail it (via the U.S. Postal Service) to:\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>The registration deadline is Jan. 31. If you miss it, don’t worry: You can still register, but you will no longer have the option to do so through the mail. You’ll have to fill out the form and submit it in person at City Hall or at your nearest polling booth.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"counted\">\u003c/a>Are noncitizen votes counted differently from those of citizens?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No, noncitizen votes are included in the overall tally of school board elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it’s the same election — noncitizens experience the same election as other voters,” said Arntz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some slight differences in the way that elections are administered for noncitizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These voters are registered in a local database, separate from the statewide system that only contains the information of voters who are citizens. And noncitizens receive a unique voter guide, written in four languages (English, Spanish, Chinese and Tagalog) and a ballot containing only school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"information\">\u003c/a>Where is this information going to go? Will my information be shared with other government agencies like ICE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once you’ve filled out your voter registration form and sent it over to the Department of Elections, your information will be stored in this agency’s database. According to Arntz, the city keeps a separate database for the registration information shared by noncitizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t input noncitizens into the statewide database,” he said, but added that the noncitizen database must follow the same rules regarding who has access to its contents. Government agencies, political campaigns and journalists can all request to see specific information about registered voters, like addresses or demographic information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arntz acknowledges that this may worry some folks that federal agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could access the personal details of undocumented San Franciscans who registered to vote. However, he points out that there is a system in place that screens who can access this information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone requested specifically the registration information [of noncitizens] from us, we would actually consult the city attorney’s office first before we did anything,” he said. ICE could request this information, but Arntz says that he has never received a request from this agency since the city expanded voter eligibility in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the city attorney’s office published a memo on Jan. 20, defending the legality of letting noncitizen parents vote in school board elections, stating that, “School Board elections are for a local purpose, distinct from an election for federal office … noncitizen voters cannot and do not vote in any other election contest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"future\">\u003c/a>Will participating in this election affect my immigration application in the future?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with Tala Hartsough, a senior staff attorney with CARECEN SF, a San Francisco-based nonprofit providing immigration legal services and social services to Bay Area migrants, to understand whether voting in the school board recall election could complicate future prospects of becoming a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their naturalization process, some folks have to submit an \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/n-400.pdf\">N-400 form\u003c/a> to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. This form asks whether the applicant has ever registered or voted in a federal, state or local election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In contrast, when someone is applying to become a permanent resident, the question is different on the form,” Hartsough said. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-485.pdf\">application for permanent residency, I-485\u003c/a>, asks whether the applicant has ever voted in violation of any federal, state or local provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartsough understands that some people might feel nervous answering these questions if they’ve previously registered to vote as a noncitizen — because the federal government restricts voting to citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [someone] is applying for citizenship, they need to show that they have good moral character,” Hartsough said. Immigration officials also can use good moral character as a metric to inform their decision in other types of immigration applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were to register for an election you are not allowed to participate in as a noncitizen (the presidential election, for example) by falsely claiming to be a citizen, Hartsough says, then that would be unlawful and could bar you from the good moral character requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I don’t think that someone who meets the requirements of registering to vote [in San Francisco], registers, then votes in the school board election would be implicating any of those problems,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartsough explains that when a noncitizen parent votes in San Francisco, they’re not claiming to be a citizen or voting as a citizen. When someone fills out a noncitizen registration form, they are making it explicit that they will be participating in the school board election as a noncitizen, and will have access to a separate ballot that includes only questions about that election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Eligible parents are] not going to say they’re a citizen, because they don’t need to be,” she added. “So someone is not registering unlawfully if they qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the Department of Elections offers, upon request, a letter that confirms that certain noncitizens are eligible to vote in San Francisco school board elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Hartsough stresses that it’s important for someone going through an immigration process to notify their legal representative if they voted or are planning to vote in the school board election as a noncitizen. Talking about these things helps prepare an attorney and an applicant for any potential questions from immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each case is different and it’s best to consult with an immigration attorney to fully understand any potential effects in your proceeding that could come from voting. We’ve compiled below a list of nonprofit organizations in San Francisco that can connect you to immigration legal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aansf.org/\">\u003cstrong>African Advocacy Network\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> located on 3106 Folsom Street. Phone: (415) 503-1032. You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.aansf.org/contact-us\">contact the network by filling out this form\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\">\u003cstrong>Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> located on 55 Columbus Avenue. Phone: (415) 896-1701.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://carecensf.org/\">\u003cstrong>CARECEN SF\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> located on 3101 Mission Street. Phone: (415) 642-4400.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://lrcl.org/\">\u003cstrong>La Raza Centro Legal\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> located on 474 Valencia Street, Suite 295. Phone: (415) 575-3500.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the city’s Board of Supervisors made the law permanent for all future school board votes, allowing noncitizen parents like Angela Zhou to vote in the February election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been a resident of San Francisco for about 20 years but not yet a U.S. citizen,” said Zhou,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\"> at a press conference held by a volunteer group focused on registering Asian voters\u003c/a>. “I’m very happy to have the opportunity to vote. It will be my first time to vote in the United States and I feel very lucky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of limited voting rights for some noncitizens is gaining traction: \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\">New York will allow legal residents to vote in municipal elections\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901435/give-us-a-chance-non-citizens-in-san-jose-could-potentially-be-allowed-to-vote\">San Jose is studying the idea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocacy and community groups across San Francisco are already mobilizing to get noncitizens registered. As of Tuesday, a record 122 people are registered as noncitizens to vote in the Board of Education recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are answers to some common questions about San Francisco’s program. Click the links below to skip to a specific section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#recall\">\u003cstrong>What is the SF school board recall election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#receive\">\u003cstrong>Why did I receive info in the mail about voting when I am not a citizen?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#register\">\u003cstrong>How do I register to vote through this program?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#counted\">\u003cstrong>Are noncitizen votes counted differently from those of citizens?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#information\">\u003cstrong>Where is this information going to go? Will my information be shared with other government agencies like ICE?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#future\">\u003cstrong>Will participating in this election affect my immigration application in the future?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"recall\">\u003c/a>What is the SF school board recall election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 15, there’ll be a vote on whether to recall three San Francisco Board of Education commissioners: Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters can choose to recall one, two, all three or none of these officials. If any of the three board members is recalled, San Francisco Mayor London Breed would appoint their replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote will be the first ballot recall of a San Francisco official in nearly 40 years, after organizers in support of the recall election last year submitted far more than the 51,325 signatures per member required to force a vote.\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\">Read more about the timeline that led to this SF school board recall election, and what’s at stake.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"receive\">\u003c/a>Why did I receive info in the mail about voting when I am not a citizen?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before each election, San Francisco’s Department of Elections sends out voting information to every household in the city. These mailers, which contain information about noncitizen voting, are sent to homes and apartments regardless of who resides in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone who lives in San Francisco, they’re receiving a mailer before the election, indicating how they can, if they’re not citizens, get more information and participate in the election,” said John Arntz, the department’s director. “We don’t know who the noncitizens are, so we’re not contacting them individually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arntz said his department is hoping to raise awareness about noncitizen voting through ads in local newspapers. A group of nonprofits have formed the\u003ca href=\"https://www.missiongraduates.org/parent-partner-program-celebrates-immigrant-parents-at-the-polls/\"> Immigrant Parent Voting Collaborative\u003c/a>, a multilingual coalition working to spread the word to noncitizens about their voting rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our work continues in ensuring that immigrant families know about and make their own decisions on exercising this newly permanent voting right,” said Eva Poon, policy manager for Chinese for Affirmative Action, in a statement celebrating the move to make noncitizen voting permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"register\">\u003c/a>How do I register to vote through this program?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Make sure to complete and submit a Non-Citizen Voter Registration Form. 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Will my information be shared with other government agencies like ICE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Once you’ve filled out your voter registration form and sent it over to the Department of Elections, your information will be stored in this agency’s database. According to Arntz, the city keeps a separate database for the registration information shared by noncitizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t input noncitizens into the statewide database,” he said, but added that the noncitizen database must follow the same rules regarding who has access to its contents. Government agencies, political campaigns and journalists can all request to see specific information about registered voters, like addresses or demographic information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arntz acknowledges that this may worry some folks that federal agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could access the personal details of undocumented San Franciscans who registered to vote. 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