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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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Updated 4:50 p.m. Tuesday \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In schools from Oakland and Berkeley to American Canyon, staffing shortages are resulting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11898251/i-learned-nothing-for-three-weeks-bay-area-sub-shortage-leaves-students-hanging\">more chaotic hallways and lost learning time\u003c/a>. The lack of subs ready to fill in for classroom teachers who have to take a sick or personal leave day is a large part of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had classes where … other teachers come in to take over and they come in to teach my class and they are really exhausted,” said Joanna Lam, a senior at Lowell High School in San Francisco. “One time, I had an administrator cover for a little bit. Lately I’ve had this one class like rotating counselors sitting in as subs. It definitely throws a wrench in things in terms of learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic, Bay Area substitute teachers have left their districts in large numbers, in part because work dried up when school instruction moved online and teachers began working from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now districts are having a hard time getting those subs back, as they, like other workers nationwide, are reevaluating the worth of their labor, and have changed locations or found better-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shortage has left districts trying new ways of recruiting by targeting retirees, parents who help out in classrooms, and corporate volunteers to become certified substitutes. However, new recruits are running into certification slowdowns at the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, on Tuesday Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order providing more flexibility for schools to support in-person instruction. The order will lower state barriers that are delaying the hire of short-term subs; will allow assignment extensions for subs; and eliminates barriers “that may prevent additional retired teachers from returning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flexibilities expire on March 31, 2022, and are only available to schools that submit a written statement saying the changes will support in-person services for students despite staffing shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the great need for subs — and the high number of applications coming in from people looking for those jobs — the state is still processing applications from October and faces a backlog of nearly 600 applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Commission on Teacher Credentialing says it’s well aware of the shortage in subs. In its defense, spokesperson Sasha Horwitz said in an email that applications are still being processed under the 50-day statutory time frame allowed.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bijur says the staff she is missing could be helping folks complete \u003ca href=\"https://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/leaflets/30-Day-Substitute-Teaching-Permit-(CL-505p)\">the application process\u003c/a>, which can include locating old SAT scores and other data not readily available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s actually not easy to become a substitute. You have to submit transcripts and you have to submit an assessment of basic skills,” Bijur explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has been trying to attract bilingual immigrant parents who might already be volunteering in their child’s elementary school classroom to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single night, every night, it keeps me awake,” Bijur says. “The single most important factor in a child’s education is the quality of their teacher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Districts trying new ways to attract substitutes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At SFUSD, Bijur is trying to come up with new ways of getting more people to help staff schools. She wants to work with the district’s corporate partners to have them send in service day volunteers to handle playground duty, freeing up those staff to fill in on classroom teaching, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Bijur is also looking into ways to get more student teachers emergency credentials to sub. Student teachers are graduate students working toward their teaching degree who often train in public school classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she succeeds, however, Bijur says any who are newly credentialed as subs would go straight into the 36 district classrooms that still don’t have a permanent teacher in them this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In San Diego, some school districts have mailed letters directly to parents asking them to step in and help. Others have turned to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/poway-unified-parents-step-up-after-plea-to-help-with-worker-shortage-san-diego-county-schools-education/509-f5ea1bae-74ae-4f0d-9456-3e00690eb8cf\">Tiktok to recruit\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Unified also is working to get more student teachers emergency credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A huge and frustrating irony in all this is that we have student teachers who would love to sub, and desperately need the money since they are in grad school,” said Berkeley High teacher Dana Moran in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But staff shortages and backlogs at the district, state, and ACOE have made it impossible for them to get certified to sub,” she said, referencing the Alameda County Office of Education. “They have literally been trying to get on the sub list since August and still have not been approved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the district has been able to hire 104 new subs this year by contracting with companies like ZipRecruiter and Indeed to target substitute recruitment. The district has moved to video screening for the sub interviews to move things along, and they’ve increased the pay rate to that of a first-year teacher’s salary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, OUSD does not provide health benefits for nonpermanent, day-to-day subs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland sub Craig Gordon, who is a retired teacher, says the district could attract more retired teachers like him back into the sub pool if it would agree to cover the costs of health care should they contract COVID-19 while on the job. Retired teachers don’t have to go through the same screening process when they want to return as a sub since they’re already credentialed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we have asked for some kind of formula whereby a substitute who is working would get health care benefits, too. But they are refusing to negotiate any of that right now,” said Gordon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to state law, on Jan. 1, teachers who retired six months ago are eligible to work as subs, and many districts said they are hoping those teachers can be persuaded to come back to the classroom a few days a week to fill in\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But older teachers also can be more hesitant to work in classrooms during the pandemic, especially during the current surge. Furthermore, aside from concerns about omicron breakthrough cases, some potential subs also are balking at working in schools that are so understaffed they’re having a hard time functioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, where the sub pool has shrunk from about 500 to 300, previous recruitment methods just aren’t working, said Tracee Edmunds, director of personnel with the Marin County Office of Education. She says districts have to actively reach out to people and leverage the networks that already exist to try to solve the sub shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to go beyond just the responsibility of the HR offices,” Edmunds said. “Everyone’s going to have to get involved, including the school site staff recruiting parents, people reaching out to members of the community and coming together as a village to help solve the staffing shortage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marin County Superintendent of Schools Office is spearheading an effort to find new substitute prospects by approaching people in line at vaccination clinics, for example. 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"content": "\u003cp>The effort to recall three San Francisco Board of Education commissioners has divided the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on the take, the recall is a coup attempt by a mob of venture capitalists and moneyed moms; a righteous crusade to save the city’s marginalized children run by a bootstrapping crew of political newbies; or a misguided effort to exorcize the demons of the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort to oust school board members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga — the first recall effort to make it onto the city’s ballot in almost four decades — is a uniquely San Franciscan edition of the ire directed at school boards across the country. Parents have been pushed to the brink by COVID-era stresses, and many have felt abandoned by their public institutions — and are hungry for accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should Collins, López and Moliga be held responsible for the disarray largely wrought by the pandemic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, anger over the handling of education during the pandemic launched a parent advocacy movement that surfaced the recall effort. That push has been fueled by long-simmering tensions, including a battle over who should have access to the city’s premier public high school and a years-old racial justice effort to rename certain schools — all of which have been highlighted by detractors as evidence of the school board’s ineptitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prolonged debacle has garnered national media attention and hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations in support of the recall. Politicians have piled on. There have been lawsuits, allegations of racism and even death threats. And now, finally, it’s almost time to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots will be mailed Jan. 12. To help you understand how we got to this point, here’s a timeline of key events that have led to the Feb. 15 recall election. Good luck, voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/faauuga-e1637364441573.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11896856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/faauuga-e1637364441573.jpeg\" alt=\"SF Mayor London Breed faces a man in a suit holding up his right hand.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1406\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed appoints Faauuga Moliga to the SF Board of Education on Oct. 15, 2018, on the campus of the June Jordan School for Equity. Breed has since supported the effort to recall Moliga, who is now the board's vice president. \u003ccite>(Courtesy \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1051912735196250112\">London Breed/Twitter\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 22, 2018\u003c/strong>: School Board Resolution No. 184-10A1, “In Support of a Formal Process in the Renaming of San Francisco Unified School District Schools,” is \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=ANVP8B5C815A\">unanimously adopted by board commissioners\u003c/a>. Written in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., the resolution calls for the school renaming process to be led by a blue-ribbon panel selected by the superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 15, 2018\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-appoints-faauuga-moliga-san-francisco-unified-school-district-board\">Mayor London Breed appoints Faauuga Moliga\u003c/a> to the school board to fill a seat vacated by Hydra Mendoza-McDonnell. Breed has since announced her support for recalling Moliga, as well as fellow board members Alison Collins and Gabriela López, and will select their replacements if the effort to oust them is successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 6, 2018\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-school-board-election-Collins-Lopez-and-13369546.php\">Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga are elected\u003c/a> to the school board. The three, all people of color, have since focused much of their policymaking on the district’s historically underserved students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>June 25, 2019\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-school-board-votes-to-destroy-14050025.php\">school board votes to paint over a controversial mural\u003c/a> at Washington High School. The 1936 \"Life of Washington\" mural, by Victor Arnautoff, had been criticized for its derogatory depictions of Native Americans and African Americans. The decision comes after a community advisory committee — consisting of local Native American community members, students, school representatives, district representatives, local artists and historians — recommends permanently removing the offensive content. But the board’s decision triggers a backlash from the school’s alumni association, art historians and local preservationists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 13, 2019\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-school-board-votes-to-destroy-14050025.php\">board reverses course on the Washington High mural\u003c/a>, voting 4-3 to cover the painting rather than permanently remove it. Board President Stevon Cook and board members Rachel Norton, Jenny Lam and Faauuga Moliga vote to cover the mural, while Alison Collins, Mark Sanchez and Gabriela López vote against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg\" alt=\"People take photos of a mural.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the public snap pictures of the controversial 'Life of Washington' mural during viewing hours at George Washington High School. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 16, 2020\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/schools-will-close-students-3-weeks\">SFUSD schools close\u003c/a> due to the onset of the COVID pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Summer 2020\u003c/strong>: A parental group called Decreasing the Distance, which forms to pressure the district to reopen schools, begins holding rallies and lobbying local and state elected officials. The group eventually evolves into the San Francisco Parent Coalition, laying the organizational groundwork to propel the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>June 24, 2020\u003c/strong>: In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the school board unanimously passes a resolution limiting police presence on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>July 15, 2020\u003c/strong>: SFUSD announces, per Superintendent Vince Matthews's recommendation, that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-confirms-it-will-begin-school-year-distance-learning\">classes for the 2020-21 school year will begin remotely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 24, 2020\u003c/strong>: About a month after the \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-announces-next-phase-reopening-begin-monday\">state moves San Francisco into the “red” reopening tier\u003c/a>, allowing for the resumption of limited capacity TK-sixth grade in-person learning, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-shares-planning-process-return-person-learning\">district shares an initial reopening plan\u003c/a>. Under the plan, the city must meet certain public health indicators and have measures in place, including a COVID testing strategy, staff training and labor agreements. Once met, SFUSD says it will apply to the city to offer in-person classes for priority student populations.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11894065,news_11897089,news_11892743\"]\u003cstrong>Oct. 21, 2020\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/board-education-approves-lowell-high-school-admissions-change-incoming-class-fall-2021\">board adopts a change to a lottery-based admissions process\u003c/a> at Lowell High School for the 2021-22 school year only, approving \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/lowell-high-school-admissions-change-incoming-class-fall-2021\">a policy presented by Matthews\u003c/a>. With standardized testing and letter grades halted because of the pandemic, district officials say it's not possible to carry out the normal admissions process at Lowell. The elite high school’s merit-based admissions system has for decades been the subject of controversy, and the board's decision stokes anger among some parents and helps galvanize recall supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 23, 2020\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-bloody-glove-and-swastikas-SF-school-board-15676326.php\">Racist and threatening social media posts\u003c/a> attacking board members López and Collins appear online in response to the board’s unanimous vote to temporarily halt merit-based admissions at Lowell. Elected officials gather to denounce the harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 10, 2020\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/BV7UJT7C54B0/%24file/Presentation%20To%20BOE_School%20Names%20Panel%20Update.pdf\">School Names Advisory Committee provides an update\u003c/a> to the school board, including a list of 44 school sites identified for possible renaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 18, 2020\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/sfusd-updates-timeline-person-learning\">district pushes back its Jan. 25 target date to reopen\u003c/a> the first 12 schools for in-person instruction because an agreement with labor unions hasn't yet been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 4, 2021\u003c/strong>: A \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgRX68QeYT7C01jyfNfEXeIloxJgtZAd/view\">survey of SFUSD families\u003c/a> finds that 57% of respondents plan to return their children to in-person learning once it is offered. But those rates vary significantly by race/ethnicity, with 80% of white, 62% of Black, 61% of Latino and 36% of Asian families opting to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 20, 2021\u003c/strong>: Students and staff at \u003ca href=\"https://thelowell.org/9736/features/looking-back-and-moving-forward-on-racial-equity-at-lowell/\">Lowell High School are exposed to racist, antisemitic and pornographic content\u003c/a> during a school-wide online anti-racism lesson. In response, the school's \u003ca href=\"https://lowell-blackstudentunion.medium.com/lowell-bsu-2020-2021-demands-339494e24641\">Black Student Union leaders issue a set of 23 demands\u003c/a> aimed at creating a safe environment for Lowell’s underrepresented students. The first demand calls for the school board to pass a resolution permanently ending merit-based admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11899779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg\" alt='A young woman looks at the camera wearing a purple sweatshirt that says, &outclass of 21\" with a raised fist in place of the number 1.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district, stands outside her school in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 26, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school board \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/SF-Board-of-Education-Advances-Plan-to-Rename-Schools\">votes to move ahead with renaming 44 sites\u003c/a>. The plan calls for the committee to review new names by April 19 and then make recommendations to the board. Commissioner Kevine \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BW6NYK613C77\">Boggess is the only dissenter\u003c/a>. Mayor Breed criticizes the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 2, 2021\u003c/strong>: School board commissioners Collins, López and Matt Alexander and student delegates Shavonne Hines-Foster and Kathya Correa Almanza \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BXR4HA0B9CC0\">introduce a resolution\u003c/a> that would permanently end the merit-based admissions system at Lowell High School and replace it with the same lottery system used at the district’s comprehensive high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 3, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2021/02/03/herrera-sues-school-board-and-district-to-implement-real-reopening-plan/\">City Attorney Dennis Herrera sues the school district\u003c/a> and its board, alleging they have failed to come up with a reopening plan that meets state requirements. Three days later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-unions-reach-tentative-agreement-health-and-safety-standards-person-learning\">SFUSD and labor unions reach a tentative agreement\u003c/a> on the health and safety standards for in-person learning. Still, on Feb. 11, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2021/02/11/herrera-files-for-emergency-court-order-to-open-sf-public-schools/\">Herrera files an emergency court order\u003c/a> to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 9, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BW6P3X614632\">board votes to permanently end merit-based admissions at Lowell High School\u003c/a>. Commissioners Lam and Boggess vote against the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 19, 2021\u003c/strong>: Parents Autumn Looijen and Siva Raj launch a campaign committee in support of recalling López, Collins and Moliga — the only three commissioners who have served on the school board long enough to face a recall challenge, per city election rules. (Leaders of the effort say they would recall all seven board members if they could.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Autumn_Siva_petitions_credit_Recall_SF_School_Board-1-scaled-e1635468698126.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11894302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Autumn_Siva_petitions_credit_Recall_SF_School_Board-1-scaled-e1635468698126.jpeg\" alt=\"A man and a woman, smiling and arm in arm, stand at the corner of two walls stacked with election filing boxes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Looijen, left, and Siva Raj, co-founders of the Recall SF School Board campaign, stand in front of boxes filled with signed petitions to put the effort on the ballot. \u003ccite>(Recall SF School Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recall opponents brand the couple interlopers because Looijen’s children attend Los Altos schools, while Raj and his children only moved to the city from Pleasanton months before initiating the recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 21, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/S-F-school-board-president-Renamings-are-on-15967923.php\">In an opinion piece in The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, López, who recently became school board president, says the board will put the school renaming effort on hold to prioritize reopening classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: SFUSD announces\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863665/questions-linger-as-san-francisco-schools-aim-to-reopen-next-month\"> an agreement with the United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a> to resume in-person learning on April 12 for some of the district’s youngest students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 18, 2021\u003c/strong>: Attorney Paul Scott, representing high school alumni associations and others, \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Alumni-v.-SFUSD.pdf\">sues the school board \u003c/a>over its decision to rename 44 schools, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Did-S-F-school-board-s-renaming-of-44-schools-15938584.php\">following through on an earlier, February threat\u003c/a>. The same day, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SFSchoolNaming-ORDER.pdf\">orders the district to either withdraw its renaming resolution\u003c/a> or show good cause for why it has not done so at a hearing set for May 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 19, 2021\u003c/strong>: A growing number of students, community members and local leaders begin \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/SFUSD-school-board-member-criticized-for-racist-16039069.php\">calling for school board vice president Alison Collins to resign\u003c/a> after the discovery of a series of tweets she wrote in 2016 disparaging Asian Americans. The tweets are resurfaced and circulated by recall supporter and Lowell alum Diane Yap, who herself has \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/upzonethememes/status/1374136766802718720\">come under fire for past comments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_7815-scaled-e1617305062188.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_7815-scaled-e1617305062188.jpg\" alt=\"A woman standing in front of microphones at a news conference.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner Alison Collins addresses her supporters at a rally in San Francisco on March 31, 2021. \u003ccite>(MJ Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school board \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BYMMM75BCEF6\">votes to strip Collins of her role as vice president\u003c/a>. Commissioners Lam and Moliga, who authored the resolution, call for her to resign, saying she has failed to take responsibility for the harm she caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 31, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/SF-school-board-member-Alison-Collins-sues-16068075.php\">Collins sues the school district\u003c/a> and fellow board members for $87 million, claiming they unlawfully retaliated against her for the 2016 tweets and violated her free speech rights. She ultimately drops the lawsuit in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 1, 2021\u003c/strong>: The “Committee to Support the Recall of Board of Education Commissioners, Lopez, Collins, and Moliga” (later renamed \"Recall School Board Members Lopez, Collins, & Moliga\") begins circulating petitions to qualify the effort for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-superintendent-announces-decision-postpone-retirement-until-june-30-2022\">Matthews announces his decision to postpone his retirement\u003c/a> until June 30, 2022. The \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BYMM8S599F9A\">conditions of his staying on\u003c/a> are laid out in a new contract approved by the board on April 20 that includes a requirement that it follow its own rules and stay focused on reopening. Recall proponents argue that replacing the three board members is key because the school board will select the next superintendent.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11896759,news_11893795,news_11896685\"]\u003cstrong>April 6, 2021\u003c/strong>: The board \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/BZPR896CB91E/%2524file/Second%2520Amended%2520Resolution%2520Re%2520Renaming%2520Schools.pdf\">votes to rescind its decision to rename 44 schools\u003c/a>, citing the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 7, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sf-board-education-commits-returning-all-students-full-time-person-learning-fall-2021\">The board votes for all SFUSD students\u003c/a> to have the option to return to full-time in-person school starting the first day of the 2021-22 academic school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 12, 2021\u003c/strong>: Students in pre-K through second grade \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869003/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-some-san-francisco-kids-return-to-in-person-school\">begin returning to the classroom\u003c/a>, with third, fourth and fifth graders starting a week later. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-resume-high-school-athletics-programs-april-12\">High school athletics resume.\u003c/a> New York City schools had begun opening seven months earlier, while Chicago schools started two months before. Frustration among some parents over the pace of reopening in San Francisco is central to the recall push. On April 26, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-welcomes-back-secondary-students-focal-populations\">2,000 middle and high school students in certain populations\u003c/a> return to in-person learning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873384/a-lot-of-people-are-unhappy-about-sfusd-plan-to-bring-high-school-seniors-back-to-class\">with some high schoolers joining in mid-May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 23, 2021\u003c/strong>: Lowell alums and other groups that oppose the move to lottery-based admissions \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/S-F-school-board-sued-over-controversial-change-16125125.php\">sue the school board\u003c/a>, alleging it voted in violation of the Brown Act, a state law requiring public access to local government agency meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: The campaign supporting the recall receives its first donation of at least $100. Previously, the campaign limited donations to under $100 in order to, they say, democratize their campaign and limit record-keeping responsibilities. In late August, venture capitalist Arthur Rock \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894065/sf-school-board-recall-funded-mostly-by-local-donors-with-venture-capitalists-topping-the-list\">contributes $49,500 to the pro-recall campaign committee\u003c/a>, the largest donation up to that point. Rock has contributed to organizations with ties to charter schools, including political advocacy arms of the California Charter Schools Association, and the EdVoice for the Kids political action committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sacks, a fellow venture capitalist, also chips in $49,500 for the recall. He previously contributed $180,000 to the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom and hosted a fundraiser in San Francisco for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Critics of the recall seize on the Rock and Sacks donations, labeling the campaign a coup attempt bankrolled by politically motivated outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black mask kneels down next to a small girl wearing a blue mask who is holding a poster that reads \"no to recall!\"' width=\"1200\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School Board President Gabriela López poses for a photo with a young supporter at the launch event for the No School Board Recalls campaign on Nov. 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(https://noschoolboardrecall.org/)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>July 27, 2021\u003c/strong>: A judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/judge-overturns-2019-decision-by-sfusd-to-cover-up-mural-at-washington-hs\">overturns the school board’s 2019 decision to cover the mural\u003c/a> at Washington High School, ruling in favor of the George \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/george-washington-high-schools-alumni-association-sues-over-controversial-s-f-mural/\">Washington High School Alumni Association, who had sued the district\u003c/a> and school board on the grounds that the district didn’t do an environmental review required by state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-opens-full-person-learning-2021-2022-school-year\">SFUSD resumes in-person learning\u003c/a> full time at all schools, five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 15, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/time-is-of-the-essence-san-franciscos-school-district-faces-possible-state-takeover/\">State officials tell SFUSD they are stepping in\u003c/a> to oversee budget-related decisions in the face of a $125 million deficit. California Department of Education officials give the district until Dec. 15 to present a plan to address the shortfall. The news is made public the following month, emboldening recall supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The superintendent’s budget-balancing plan, approved Dec. 14, would cut $50 million from school sites, resulting in the loss of about 360 positions and $40 million from the central office. The balance would be made up in savings and new revenue. López is the sole no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s budget troubles date back years. In Feb. 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/educators-hit-with-first-layoff-warning-in-a-decade/\">Matthews warned district employees of layoffs\u003c/a> and “drastic cuts” totaling $26 million, citing rising costs that by then had outpaced revenues for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Week of Sept. 27, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Judge-orders-S-F-school-district-to-pay-legal-16500190.php\">A judge orders SFUSD to pay $60,000 in legal fees\u003c/a> related to a lawsuit over the renaming of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: The board \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C738F91DFC25\">votes 6-1 to appeal\u003c/a> a court ruling that found that the board violated state law when it decided to cover the Washington High mural. Lam is the only no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 18, 2021\u003c/strong>: The San Francisco Department of Elections announces that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\">all three school board member recalls qualify\u003c/a> for the ballot, and sets a Feb. 15 election date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: “Stop the Recall of Faauuga Moliga” political action committee is formed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 30, 2021\u003c/strong>: A campaign committee to oppose the recall of all three board members, “No on Recalls of School Board Commissioners Lopez, Collins and Moliga,” is created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897133\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a green t-shirt and two women, one wearing a navy blue shirt and the other with a black jacket, yellow pin and shirt with a flowers stand on the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD teachers and school board recall opponents (from left) Alex DiCicco, Karina Hwang and Cynthia Meza stand outside Leonard Flynn Elementary School in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 4, 2021\u003c/strong>: State Sen. Scott \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scott_wiener/status/1456302181187944458\">Wiener, D-San Francisco, announces his endorsement of the recall\u003c/a> of all three board members. Five days later, Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Mayor-Breed-backs-recall-of-three-San-Francisco-16607126.php\">announces her endorsement\u003c/a> of the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 15, 2021\u003c/strong>: A second pro-recall campaign committee, \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=sfo\">Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, Lopez, and Moliga\u003c/a>, is formed to handle the messaging and media in support of the recall. Todd David, the former political director for Wiener’s state Senate campaign, is listed as the treasurer. Arthur Rock, the venture capitalist, chips in $350,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 17, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/judge-lowell-admissions-decision-violated-open-meeting-law/\">A judge rules that the school board violated the Brown Act\u003c/a> when it voted to do away with merit-based admissions at Lowell. The order leaves open the possibility of correcting the procedural error by putting the resolution on the school board's agenda with proper notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 16, 2021\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sf-board-education-approves-maintaining-current-admissions-criteria-lowell-high-school-2022-23\">school board votes\u003c/a> to maintain lottery-based admissions at Lowell High School for the 2022-23 school year.\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-superintendent-proposes-maintaining-choice-based-admissions-lowell-high-school-2022-23-school\"> Matthews put forward the proposal in late November\u003c/a>, saying there wasn't enough time to transition back to a merit-based system before the district’s Feb. 4 application deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 15, 2022\u003c/strong>: The recall election.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prolonged debacle has garnered national media attention and hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations in support of the recall. Politicians have piled on. There have been lawsuits, allegations of racism and even death threats. And now, finally, it’s almost time to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots will be mailed Jan. 12. To help you understand how we got to this point, here’s a timeline of key events that have led to the Feb. 15 recall election. Good luck, voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11896856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/faauuga-e1637364441573.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11896856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/faauuga-e1637364441573.jpeg\" alt=\"SF Mayor London Breed faces a man in a suit holding up his right hand.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1406\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed appoints Faauuga Moliga to the SF Board of Education on Oct. 15, 2018, on the campus of the June Jordan School for Equity. Breed has since supported the effort to recall Moliga, who is now the board's vice president. \u003ccite>(Courtesy \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1051912735196250112\">London Breed/Twitter\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 22, 2018\u003c/strong>: School Board Resolution No. 184-10A1, “In Support of a Formal Process in the Renaming of San Francisco Unified School District Schools,” is \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=ANVP8B5C815A\">unanimously adopted by board commissioners\u003c/a>. Written in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., the resolution calls for the school renaming process to be led by a blue-ribbon panel selected by the superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 15, 2018\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-appoints-faauuga-moliga-san-francisco-unified-school-district-board\">Mayor London Breed appoints Faauuga Moliga\u003c/a> to the school board to fill a seat vacated by Hydra Mendoza-McDonnell. Breed has since announced her support for recalling Moliga, as well as fellow board members Alison Collins and Gabriela López, and will select their replacements if the effort to oust them is successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 6, 2018\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-school-board-election-Collins-Lopez-and-13369546.php\">Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga are elected\u003c/a> to the school board. The three, all people of color, have since focused much of their policymaking on the district’s historically underserved students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>June 25, 2019\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-school-board-votes-to-destroy-14050025.php\">school board votes to paint over a controversial mural\u003c/a> at Washington High School. The 1936 \"Life of Washington\" mural, by Victor Arnautoff, had been criticized for its derogatory depictions of Native Americans and African Americans. The decision comes after a community advisory committee — consisting of local Native American community members, students, school representatives, district representatives, local artists and historians — recommends permanently removing the offensive content. But the board’s decision triggers a backlash from the school’s alumni association, art historians and local preservationists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 13, 2019\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-school-board-votes-to-destroy-14050025.php\">board reverses course on the Washington High mural\u003c/a>, voting 4-3 to cover the painting rather than permanently remove it. Board President Stevon Cook and board members Rachel Norton, Jenny Lam and Faauuga Moliga vote to cover the mural, while Alison Collins, Mark Sanchez and Gabriela López vote against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg\" alt=\"People take photos of a mural.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/washignton-mural-photos-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the public snap pictures of the controversial 'Life of Washington' mural during viewing hours at George Washington High School. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 16, 2020\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/schools-will-close-students-3-weeks\">SFUSD schools close\u003c/a> due to the onset of the COVID pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Summer 2020\u003c/strong>: A parental group called Decreasing the Distance, which forms to pressure the district to reopen schools, begins holding rallies and lobbying local and state elected officials. The group eventually evolves into the San Francisco Parent Coalition, laying the organizational groundwork to propel the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>June 24, 2020\u003c/strong>: In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the school board unanimously passes a resolution limiting police presence on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>July 15, 2020\u003c/strong>: SFUSD announces, per Superintendent Vince Matthews's recommendation, that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-confirms-it-will-begin-school-year-distance-learning\">classes for the 2020-21 school year will begin remotely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 24, 2020\u003c/strong>: About a month after the \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-announces-next-phase-reopening-begin-monday\">state moves San Francisco into the “red” reopening tier\u003c/a>, allowing for the resumption of limited capacity TK-sixth grade in-person learning, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-shares-planning-process-return-person-learning\">district shares an initial reopening plan\u003c/a>. Under the plan, the city must meet certain public health indicators and have measures in place, including a COVID testing strategy, staff training and labor agreements. Once met, SFUSD says it will apply to the city to offer in-person classes for priority student populations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 21, 2020\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/board-education-approves-lowell-high-school-admissions-change-incoming-class-fall-2021\">board adopts a change to a lottery-based admissions process\u003c/a> at Lowell High School for the 2021-22 school year only, approving \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/lowell-high-school-admissions-change-incoming-class-fall-2021\">a policy presented by Matthews\u003c/a>. With standardized testing and letter grades halted because of the pandemic, district officials say it's not possible to carry out the normal admissions process at Lowell. The elite high school’s merit-based admissions system has for decades been the subject of controversy, and the board's decision stokes anger among some parents and helps galvanize recall supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 23, 2020\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-bloody-glove-and-swastikas-SF-school-board-15676326.php\">Racist and threatening social media posts\u003c/a> attacking board members López and Collins appear online in response to the board’s unanimous vote to temporarily halt merit-based admissions at Lowell. Elected officials gather to denounce the harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 10, 2020\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/BV7UJT7C54B0/%24file/Presentation%20To%20BOE_School%20Names%20Panel%20Update.pdf\">School Names Advisory Committee provides an update\u003c/a> to the school board, including a list of 44 school sites identified for possible renaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 18, 2020\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/sfusd-updates-timeline-person-learning\">district pushes back its Jan. 25 target date to reopen\u003c/a> the first 12 schools for in-person instruction because an agreement with labor unions hasn't yet been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 4, 2021\u003c/strong>: A \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgRX68QeYT7C01jyfNfEXeIloxJgtZAd/view\">survey of SFUSD families\u003c/a> finds that 57% of respondents plan to return their children to in-person learning once it is offered. But those rates vary significantly by race/ethnicity, with 80% of white, 62% of Black, 61% of Latino and 36% of Asian families opting to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 20, 2021\u003c/strong>: Students and staff at \u003ca href=\"https://thelowell.org/9736/features/looking-back-and-moving-forward-on-racial-equity-at-lowell/\">Lowell High School are exposed to racist, antisemitic and pornographic content\u003c/a> during a school-wide online anti-racism lesson. In response, the school's \u003ca href=\"https://lowell-blackstudentunion.medium.com/lowell-bsu-2020-2021-demands-339494e24641\">Black Student Union leaders issue a set of 23 demands\u003c/a> aimed at creating a safe environment for Lowell’s underrepresented students. The first demand calls for the school board to pass a resolution permanently ending merit-based admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11899779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg\" alt='A young woman looks at the camera wearing a purple sweatshirt that says, &outclass of 21\" with a raised fist in place of the number 1.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/010_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_Shavonne_01292021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district, stands outside her school in San Francisco on Jan. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 26, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school board \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/SF-Board-of-Education-Advances-Plan-to-Rename-Schools\">votes to move ahead with renaming 44 sites\u003c/a>. The plan calls for the committee to review new names by April 19 and then make recommendations to the board. Commissioner Kevine \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BW6NYK613C77\">Boggess is the only dissenter\u003c/a>. Mayor Breed criticizes the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 2, 2021\u003c/strong>: School board commissioners Collins, López and Matt Alexander and student delegates Shavonne Hines-Foster and Kathya Correa Almanza \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BXR4HA0B9CC0\">introduce a resolution\u003c/a> that would permanently end the merit-based admissions system at Lowell High School and replace it with the same lottery system used at the district’s comprehensive high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 3, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2021/02/03/herrera-sues-school-board-and-district-to-implement-real-reopening-plan/\">City Attorney Dennis Herrera sues the school district\u003c/a> and its board, alleging they have failed to come up with a reopening plan that meets state requirements. Three days later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sfusd-unions-reach-tentative-agreement-health-and-safety-standards-person-learning\">SFUSD and labor unions reach a tentative agreement\u003c/a> on the health and safety standards for in-person learning. Still, on Feb. 11, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2021/02/11/herrera-files-for-emergency-court-order-to-open-sf-public-schools/\">Herrera files an emergency court order\u003c/a> to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 9, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BW6P3X614632\">board votes to permanently end merit-based admissions at Lowell High School\u003c/a>. Commissioners Lam and Boggess vote against the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 19, 2021\u003c/strong>: Parents Autumn Looijen and Siva Raj launch a campaign committee in support of recalling López, Collins and Moliga — the only three commissioners who have served on the school board long enough to face a recall challenge, per city election rules. (Leaders of the effort say they would recall all seven board members if they could.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Autumn_Siva_petitions_credit_Recall_SF_School_Board-1-scaled-e1635468698126.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11894302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Autumn_Siva_petitions_credit_Recall_SF_School_Board-1-scaled-e1635468698126.jpeg\" alt=\"A man and a woman, smiling and arm in arm, stand at the corner of two walls stacked with election filing boxes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Looijen, left, and Siva Raj, co-founders of the Recall SF School Board campaign, stand in front of boxes filled with signed petitions to put the effort on the ballot. \u003ccite>(Recall SF School Board)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recall opponents brand the couple interlopers because Looijen’s children attend Los Altos schools, while Raj and his children only moved to the city from Pleasanton months before initiating the recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 21, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/S-F-school-board-president-Renamings-are-on-15967923.php\">In an opinion piece in The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, López, who recently became school board president, says the board will put the school renaming effort on hold to prioritize reopening classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: SFUSD announces\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863665/questions-linger-as-san-francisco-schools-aim-to-reopen-next-month\"> an agreement with the United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a> to resume in-person learning on April 12 for some of the district’s youngest students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 18, 2021\u003c/strong>: Attorney Paul Scott, representing high school alumni associations and others, \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Alumni-v.-SFUSD.pdf\">sues the school board \u003c/a>over its decision to rename 44 schools, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Did-S-F-school-board-s-renaming-of-44-schools-15938584.php\">following through on an earlier, February threat\u003c/a>. The same day, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SFSchoolNaming-ORDER.pdf\">orders the district to either withdraw its renaming resolution\u003c/a> or show good cause for why it has not done so at a hearing set for May 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 19, 2021\u003c/strong>: A growing number of students, community members and local leaders begin \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/SFUSD-school-board-member-criticized-for-racist-16039069.php\">calling for school board vice president Alison Collins to resign\u003c/a> after the discovery of a series of tweets she wrote in 2016 disparaging Asian Americans. The tweets are resurfaced and circulated by recall supporter and Lowell alum Diane Yap, who herself has \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/upzonethememes/status/1374136766802718720\">come under fire for past comments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_7815-scaled-e1617305062188.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/IMG_7815-scaled-e1617305062188.jpg\" alt=\"A woman standing in front of microphones at a news conference.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner Alison Collins addresses her supporters at a rally in San Francisco on March 31, 2021. \u003ccite>(MJ Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: The school board \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BYMMM75BCEF6\">votes to strip Collins of her role as vice president\u003c/a>. Commissioners Lam and Moliga, who authored the resolution, call for her to resign, saying she has failed to take responsibility for the harm she caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 31, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/SF-school-board-member-Alison-Collins-sues-16068075.php\">Collins sues the school district\u003c/a> and fellow board members for $87 million, claiming they unlawfully retaliated against her for the 2016 tweets and violated her free speech rights. She ultimately drops the lawsuit in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 1, 2021\u003c/strong>: The “Committee to Support the Recall of Board of Education Commissioners, Lopez, Collins, and Moliga” (later renamed \"Recall School Board Members Lopez, Collins, & Moliga\") begins circulating petitions to qualify the effort for the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: Superintendent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-superintendent-announces-decision-postpone-retirement-until-june-30-2022\">Matthews announces his decision to postpone his retirement\u003c/a> until June 30, 2022. The \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BYMM8S599F9A\">conditions of his staying on\u003c/a> are laid out in a new contract approved by the board on April 20 that includes a requirement that it follow its own rules and stay focused on reopening. Recall proponents argue that replacing the three board members is key because the school board will select the next superintendent.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 6, 2021\u003c/strong>: The board \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/BZPR896CB91E/%2524file/Second%2520Amended%2520Resolution%2520Re%2520Renaming%2520Schools.pdf\">votes to rescind its decision to rename 44 schools\u003c/a>, citing the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 7, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sf-board-education-commits-returning-all-students-full-time-person-learning-fall-2021\">The board votes for all SFUSD students\u003c/a> to have the option to return to full-time in-person school starting the first day of the 2021-22 academic school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 12, 2021\u003c/strong>: Students in pre-K through second grade \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869003/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-some-san-francisco-kids-return-to-in-person-school\">begin returning to the classroom\u003c/a>, with third, fourth and fifth graders starting a week later. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-resume-high-school-athletics-programs-april-12\">High school athletics resume.\u003c/a> New York City schools had begun opening seven months earlier, while Chicago schools started two months before. Frustration among some parents over the pace of reopening in San Francisco is central to the recall push. On April 26, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-welcomes-back-secondary-students-focal-populations\">2,000 middle and high school students in certain populations\u003c/a> return to in-person learning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873384/a-lot-of-people-are-unhappy-about-sfusd-plan-to-bring-high-school-seniors-back-to-class\">with some high schoolers joining in mid-May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>April 23, 2021\u003c/strong>: Lowell alums and other groups that oppose the move to lottery-based admissions \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/S-F-school-board-sued-over-controversial-change-16125125.php\">sue the school board\u003c/a>, alleging it voted in violation of the Brown Act, a state law requiring public access to local government agency meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: The campaign supporting the recall receives its first donation of at least $100. Previously, the campaign limited donations to under $100 in order to, they say, democratize their campaign and limit record-keeping responsibilities. In late August, venture capitalist Arthur Rock \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894065/sf-school-board-recall-funded-mostly-by-local-donors-with-venture-capitalists-topping-the-list\">contributes $49,500 to the pro-recall campaign committee\u003c/a>, the largest donation up to that point. Rock has contributed to organizations with ties to charter schools, including political advocacy arms of the California Charter Schools Association, and the EdVoice for the Kids political action committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sacks, a fellow venture capitalist, also chips in $49,500 for the recall. He previously contributed $180,000 to the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom and hosted a fundraiser in San Francisco for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Critics of the recall seize on the Rock and Sacks donations, labeling the campaign a coup attempt bankrolled by politically motivated outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black mask kneels down next to a small girl wearing a blue mask who is holding a poster that reads \"no to recall!\"' width=\"1200\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School Board President Gabriela López poses for a photo with a young supporter at the launch event for the No School Board Recalls campaign on Nov. 13, 2021. \u003ccite>(https://noschoolboardrecall.org/)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>July 27, 2021\u003c/strong>: A judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/judge-overturns-2019-decision-by-sfusd-to-cover-up-mural-at-washington-hs\">overturns the school board’s 2019 decision to cover the mural\u003c/a> at Washington High School, ruling in favor of the George \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/george-washington-high-schools-alumni-association-sues-over-controversial-s-f-mural/\">Washington High School Alumni Association, who had sued the district\u003c/a> and school board on the grounds that the district didn’t do an environmental review required by state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aug. 16, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-opens-full-person-learning-2021-2022-school-year\">SFUSD resumes in-person learning\u003c/a> full time at all schools, five days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sept. 15, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/time-is-of-the-essence-san-franciscos-school-district-faces-possible-state-takeover/\">State officials tell SFUSD they are stepping in\u003c/a> to oversee budget-related decisions in the face of a $125 million deficit. California Department of Education officials give the district until Dec. 15 to present a plan to address the shortfall. The news is made public the following month, emboldening recall supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The superintendent’s budget-balancing plan, approved Dec. 14, would cut $50 million from school sites, resulting in the loss of about 360 positions and $40 million from the central office. The balance would be made up in savings and new revenue. López is the sole no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s budget troubles date back years. In Feb. 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/educators-hit-with-first-layoff-warning-in-a-decade/\">Matthews warned district employees of layoffs\u003c/a> and “drastic cuts” totaling $26 million, citing rising costs that by then had outpaced revenues for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Week of Sept. 27, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Judge-orders-S-F-school-district-to-pay-legal-16500190.php\">A judge orders SFUSD to pay $60,000 in legal fees\u003c/a> related to a lawsuit over the renaming of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 5, 2021\u003c/strong>: The board \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C738F91DFC25\">votes 6-1 to appeal\u003c/a> a court ruling that found that the board violated state law when it decided to cover the Washington High mural. Lam is the only no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 18, 2021\u003c/strong>: The San Francisco Department of Elections announces that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\">all three school board member recalls qualify\u003c/a> for the ballot, and sets a Feb. 15 election date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 25, 2021\u003c/strong>: “Stop the Recall of Faauuga Moliga” political action committee is formed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 30, 2021\u003c/strong>: A campaign committee to oppose the recall of all three board members, “No on Recalls of School Board Commissioners Lopez, Collins and Moliga,” is created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897133\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a green t-shirt and two women, one wearing a navy blue shirt and the other with a black jacket, yellow pin and shirt with a flowers stand on the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD teachers and school board recall opponents (from left) Alex DiCicco, Karina Hwang and Cynthia Meza stand outside Leonard Flynn Elementary School in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 4, 2021\u003c/strong>: State Sen. Scott \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scott_wiener/status/1456302181187944458\">Wiener, D-San Francisco, announces his endorsement of the recall\u003c/a> of all three board members. Five days later, Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Mayor-Breed-backs-recall-of-three-San-Francisco-16607126.php\">announces her endorsement\u003c/a> of the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 15, 2021\u003c/strong>: A second pro-recall campaign committee, \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=sfo\">Concerned Parents Supporting the Recall of Collins, Lopez, and Moliga\u003c/a>, is formed to handle the messaging and media in support of the recall. Todd David, the former political director for Wiener’s state Senate campaign, is listed as the treasurer. Arthur Rock, the venture capitalist, chips in $350,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nov. 17, 2021\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/judge-lowell-admissions-decision-violated-open-meeting-law/\">A judge rules that the school board violated the Brown Act\u003c/a> when it voted to do away with merit-based admissions at Lowell. The order leaves open the possibility of correcting the procedural error by putting the resolution on the school board's agenda with proper notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 16, 2021\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sf-board-education-approves-maintaining-current-admissions-criteria-lowell-high-school-2022-23\">school board votes\u003c/a> to maintain lottery-based admissions at Lowell High School for the 2022-23 school year.\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-superintendent-proposes-maintaining-choice-based-admissions-lowell-high-school-2022-23-school\"> Matthews put forward the proposal in late November\u003c/a>, saying there wasn't enough time to transition back to a merit-based system before the district’s Feb. 4 application deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Anna Mahina was growing up in the Bay Area in the ‘80s, there were few, if any, supports in schools for kids like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The child of Tongan immigrants, she says teachers assumed she was Latina and placed her in classes for English-language learners, where she struggled to follow lessons delivered half in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her family didn’t know how to demand better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Mahina is raising a son in San Francisco. She’s an advocate for the Tongan community, starting the organization \u003ca href=\"https://sf-tru.org/\">San Francisco Tongans Rise Up\u003c/a> and joining the San Francisco Unified School District’s Parent Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're not going to have our kids go through the same issues that we had to go through,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since fellow Pacific Islander Faauuga Moliga took a seat on SFUSD's board, she says she’s seen new investments in her community, like the creation of the district’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.samoanews.com/regional/samoan-dual-language-pre-k-program-launched-ca\">Samoan dual-language immersion program\u003c/a>. But if Moliga, the school board’s vice president, is recalled in February, Mahina worries that progress will slow for students who’ve consistently had some of the worst academic outcomes in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having someone who looks like you sitting on the board of ed not only is empowering for our students and our families, but also he knows the struggles straight from the heart,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to recall Moliga, board President Gabriela López and board member Alison Collins has earned national attention, and continues to gain momentum, with Mayor London Breed and state Sen. Scott Wiener recently throwing their weight behind it. But the voices of parents like Mahina, who feel represented for the first time, are often drowned out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1369px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897092\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people with signs stand and sit.\" width=\"1369\" height=\"1027\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39.jpg 1369w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1369px) 100vw, 1369px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recall opponents gathered Saturday, Nov. 13, for the launch of the No School Board Recalls campaign. \u003ccite>(https://noschoolboardrecall.org/)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recall leaders argue the board unnecessarily delayed reopening classrooms while prioritizing — and mismanaging — the renaming of schools and changing the admissions policy at Lowell High School, San Francisco’s elite public school. Central, too, is anger directed at Collins, who was stripped of her leadership position on the board when past Twitter comments were resurfaced by recall proponent and Lowell grad Diane Yap. In response, Collins sued the district for $87 million. A judge dismissed the suit, and Collins dropped her effort.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leilani Ishaan, a parent in SFUSD\"]'Adults inserted themselves in a place they shouldn't have. The board was good at being guided by the students.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a school board that talks nonstop about social justice but doesn't do the single most important thing that our school district needed the whole year to help the very kids who are the most disadvantaged and hurt by [keeping classrooms closed],” says Siva Raj, the recall campaign co-lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Mahina find that sentiment disingenuous. She says the recall comes at the expense of the district’s most vulnerable and marginalized students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see the logic driving these efforts being centered on opportunity structures and pathways for communities of color and for communities experiencing poverty,” Janelle Scott, a UC Berkeley education professor, says of the recall push. “Those voices are often not centered in these efforts that are coming from folks who say they are in fact putting people of color at the center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott notes that communities of color in the city tended to be more skeptical of reopening schools. Throughout the pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1393-2.html\">surveys around the country\u003c/a> consistently showed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/racial-divide-reopening-schools-coronavirus-a8c98eb3-bb4b-4d5f-a9c1-c2b5297782c2.html\">white families were more likely to want to return in person than families of color\u003c/a>. In San Francisco, district surveys found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/announcements/2021-02-03-planning-and-preparing-reopen-school-sites\">white families overwhelmingly wanted to return to classrooms\u003c/a>, while Black and Latino families wanted to return by much more narrow majorities. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885947/survey-most-sf-families-living-in-chinatown-communal-housing-dont-want-their-kids-back-in-school\">Asian families, especially Chinese families, were hesitant.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black mask kneels down next to a small girl wearing a blue mask who is holding a poster that reads \"no to recall!\"' width=\"1200\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School Board President Gabriela López poses for a photo with a young supporter at the launch event for the No School Board Recalls campaign on Saturday Nov. 13. \u003ccite>(https://noschoolboardrecall.org/)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Black parents, like Leilani Ishaan, a product of SFUSD schools whose two sons graduated from district schools last year, are also skeptical of the intentions of the recall proponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't believe you when you say ‘all kids,’” she says. “All this is in the benefit of you because you're impacted right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What gets lost in all the adults fighting, Ishaan argues, is that students of color, like her son who went to Lowell High School, are the ones who stood to benefit from policies board members pursued that became so controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adults inserted themselves in a place they shouldn't have,” she says. “The board was good at being guided by the students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavonne Hines Foster, now in college, was one of the students guiding those changes as a student delegate on the school board last year. She also served as president of the Lowell High School Black Student Union. She says the policies students fought for are central to improving the quality of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Lowell admissions, the effort to enroll more Black and Latinx students is decades old, and the last time Black students demanded the school board take steps to address racism on campus in \u003ca href=\"https://thelowell.org/506/multimedia/videos/watch-the-black-student-unions-demands-at-the-board-meeting-after-student-walkout/\">2016\u003c/a>, little changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My four years at Lowell, I faced egregious incidents of racism dating from my first week to graduation senior year,” says Hines Foster. “That's the key reason why we're championing for Lowell to be open to all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, Collins and Moliga say their policymaking on the board has always been driven by community needs.[aside postID=\"news_11729926,news_11896759,news_11894065\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be told by a community of people who I know are privileged that we're not supporting the most marginalized, it was honestly hard for me because a part of me knew that they weren't seeing it and living it every day,”\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893795/all-political-sf-board-of-education-president-gabriela-lopez-on-the-recall-effort-against-her-2-other-board-members\"> López says\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López says \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2020/07/the-latino-task-force-emerges-to-take-on-covid-19/\">her work with the Latino Task Force\u003c/a> helped families meet basic needs early in the pandemic, and that work later helped inform policies in the city through its work with UCSF researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, says Collins, the former board president who filed a lawsuit against the district, “There is one consistent thing that [advisory councils and committees] say their children need: They need to see that their community, their history and their culture is reflected in the curriculum. ... That motivates kids when they see themselves in the curriculum, so that has a direct impact on achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their tenure, Collins, Moliga, López and their colleagues have taken steps to expand ethnic studies and anti-racist pedagogy, efforts that build on the work of past boards and respond to community advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/archived-press-releases/091119-sf-board-education-passes-resolution-support-equity-studies\">board adopted a plan\u003c/a> to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/school-board-working-to-put-ethnic-studies-at-heart-of-district-curriculum/\">an ethnic studies lens to all curricula district-wide\u003c/a>, a plan Collins says grew out of an African American Parent Advisory Council survey of principals that found too many schools weren’t teaching Black history. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/african-american-achievement-leadership-initiative/black-history-resource-guide\">Black parents worked with educators to build a resource guide on teaching Black history\u003c/a> that’s become the model for rethinking how Asian American, Latinx and Native American history is taught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses and a jean jacket leans against a bookcase in a classroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Ramos, a teacher librarian at Sanchez Elementary and parent of a third grader in the district, poses for a portrait at the school in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>López and Moliga laid the groundwork to channel more resources toward closing achievement gaps for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/121119-sfusd-board-education-passes-resolution-aimed-improving-latinx-student-success\">Latinx\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sf-board-education-updates-resolution-enhancing-equitable-services-hawaiian-and-pacific-islander\">Pacific Islander students\u003c/a>, while Collins and López put forward an \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/BDCTQF78773A/%24file/195-28A1%20Rights%20of%20all%20students%20to%20Arts%20Learning%20.pdf\">arts equity resolution\u003c/a> ensuring all schools have an art teacher and all students have access to free instruments. Moliga also led efforts \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sf-board-education-paves-way-building-more-affordable-educator-housing\">to develop affordable housing\u003c/a> for educators, while \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/11/24/is-california-in-a-better-place-than-it-was-during-last-years-pandemic-holidays-depends-where-you-live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Collins worked with the American Indian/Alaskan Native Parent Advisory Council\u003c/a> to replace stereotypes and misinformation in district materials with accurate and culturally competent information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Tara Ramos, a teacher librarian at Sanchez Elementary, parent of a third grader in the district, and a union representative for \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/executive-board/\">United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a>, the board members have stayed true to the values they ran on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We campaigned for them and elected them because we wanted something new and different,” says Ramos, a longtime parent advocate and one of the organizers for \u003ca href=\"https://noschoolboardrecall.org/\">Vote No School Board Recalls\u003c/a>. “As a city, we were ready to take on racist systems and structures in the school district and that's the work that they were doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More parents became intimately involved in the educational process during the pandemic. Many started paying attention to school board meetings for the first time, and many didn’t like what they saw, whether it was delays in reopening schools, mask mandates or ethnic studies curricula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos referred to it as the “gentrification of parent activism.” She would have liked to see the newly active parents work with established parent advocacy groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just coming in assuming that there is no work being done and only putting forth your issues — what's important for you and your kids — and not thinking about what other people's issues are and what their kids need,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\" alt='A yellow pin on a black jacket says \"Racial Justice Not Recalls.\" ' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD teacher and school board recall opponent Cynthia Meza wears a pin that says, \"Racial Justice Not Recalls,\" outside of Leonard Flynn Elementary School in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, recalls have spiked. Ballotpedia has tallied 84 school board recall efforts this year, up from an annual average of 23 per year between 2006 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco recall supporters interviewed by KQED are loath to align themselves with the wave of anti-school board sentiment fed by fledgling conservative groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/moms-for-liberty-parents-rights/2021/10/14/bf3d9ccc-286a-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html\">Moms for Liberty\u003c/a>, but a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/08/moms-for-liberty-education-elections/\">op-ed by the group’s founders\u003c/a> echoes arguments made by local recall supporters about school boards prioritizing social justice over reopening classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many others, the cost of the recall, just nine months before the commissioners are up for reelection, is reason enough to oppose it. \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-and-supervisor-rafael-mandelman-propose-funding-upcoming-elections\">Mayor Breed is seeking $12 million to cover the cost of the February election\u003c/a>, which includes the recall and other contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD teacher Cynthia Meza, who has three kids in the district and once worked with López at Leonard Flynn Elementary School, finds the argument that the recall will improve conditions hollow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's no way that that recall is going to close the learning loss. If anything, it's going to make it that much worse,” she says. “Those people that are supporting this recall are stealing from our students of color that need it most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897133\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a green t-shirt and two women, one wearing a navy blue shirt and the other with a black jacket, yellow pin and shirt with a flowers stand on the street. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD teachers and school board recall opponents (from left) Alex DiCicco, Karina Hwang and Cynthia Meza stand outside Leonard Flynn Elementary School in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To defend the cost of the recall for the cash-strapped district, recall co-lead Autumn Looijen draws a comparison to the second impeachment of former president Donald Trump days before the end of his term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why did we do that? Because we needed to send a message that some sorts of behavior are not acceptable from public officials,” she says. “That's what we're doing here. We're saying, ‘We were in crisis and you abandoned our children. We were in crisis and you left the most vulnerable kids behind. Don't ask them to wait for justice.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The urgency is also about installing new board members in time to choose the next superintendent after Vincent Matthews retires in the summer, Raj and Looijen say. They want leaders in place that they trust to manage the district’s budget crisis. If any of the board members are recalled, Mayor Breed would appoint their replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD parent Fernando Marti, who leads the Council of Community Housing Organizations and worked with Moliga on his \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sf-board-education-paves-way-building-more-affordable-educator-housing\">educator housing initiative\u003c/a>, says he understands the recall supporters’ frustration. But, rather than blaming the school board, Marti sees larger systemic flaws as the culprit for the school district’s dysfunction, which has historically failed students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's got to do with taxation, revenue, funding and all of those things that are prerequisites to have the right programs in place and have the right structures in place to meet a crisis like this,” he says. “And we simply don't have that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Anna Mahina was growing up in the Bay Area in the ‘80s, there were few, if any, supports in schools for kids like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The child of Tongan immigrants, she says teachers assumed she was Latina and placed her in classes for English-language learners, where she struggled to follow lessons delivered half in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her family didn’t know how to demand better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Mahina is raising a son in San Francisco. She’s an advocate for the Tongan community, starting the organization \u003ca href=\"https://sf-tru.org/\">San Francisco Tongans Rise Up\u003c/a> and joining the San Francisco Unified School District’s Parent Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're not going to have our kids go through the same issues that we had to go through,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since fellow Pacific Islander Faauuga Moliga took a seat on SFUSD's board, she says she’s seen new investments in her community, like the creation of the district’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.samoanews.com/regional/samoan-dual-language-pre-k-program-launched-ca\">Samoan dual-language immersion program\u003c/a>. But if Moliga, the school board’s vice president, is recalled in February, Mahina worries that progress will slow for students who’ve consistently had some of the worst academic outcomes in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having someone who looks like you sitting on the board of ed not only is empowering for our students and our families, but also he knows the struggles straight from the heart,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to recall Moliga, board President Gabriela López and board member Alison Collins has earned national attention, and continues to gain momentum, with Mayor London Breed and state Sen. Scott Wiener recently throwing their weight behind it. But the voices of parents like Mahina, who feel represented for the first time, are often drowned out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1369px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897092\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people with signs stand and sit.\" width=\"1369\" height=\"1027\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39.jpg 1369w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-39-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1369px) 100vw, 1369px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recall opponents gathered Saturday, Nov. 13, for the launch of the No School Board Recalls campaign. \u003ccite>(https://noschoolboardrecall.org/)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recall leaders argue the board unnecessarily delayed reopening classrooms while prioritizing — and mismanaging — the renaming of schools and changing the admissions policy at Lowell High School, San Francisco’s elite public school. Central, too, is anger directed at Collins, who was stripped of her leadership position on the board when past Twitter comments were resurfaced by recall proponent and Lowell grad Diane Yap. In response, Collins sued the district for $87 million. A judge dismissed the suit, and Collins dropped her effort.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a school board that talks nonstop about social justice but doesn't do the single most important thing that our school district needed the whole year to help the very kids who are the most disadvantaged and hurt by [keeping classrooms closed],” says Siva Raj, the recall campaign co-lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents like Mahina find that sentiment disingenuous. She says the recall comes at the expense of the district’s most vulnerable and marginalized students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see the logic driving these efforts being centered on opportunity structures and pathways for communities of color and for communities experiencing poverty,” Janelle Scott, a UC Berkeley education professor, says of the recall push. “Those voices are often not centered in these efforts that are coming from folks who say they are in fact putting people of color at the center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott notes that communities of color in the city tended to be more skeptical of reopening schools. Throughout the pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1393-2.html\">surveys around the country\u003c/a> consistently showed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/racial-divide-reopening-schools-coronavirus-a8c98eb3-bb4b-4d5f-a9c1-c2b5297782c2.html\">white families were more likely to want to return in person than families of color\u003c/a>. In San Francisco, district surveys found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/announcements/2021-02-03-planning-and-preparing-reopen-school-sites\">white families overwhelmingly wanted to return to classrooms\u003c/a>, while Black and Latino families wanted to return by much more narrow majorities. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885947/survey-most-sf-families-living-in-chinatown-communal-housing-dont-want-their-kids-back-in-school\">Asian families, especially Chinese families, were hesitant.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a black mask kneels down next to a small girl wearing a blue mask who is holding a poster that reads \"no to recall!\"' width=\"1200\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/PHOTO-2021-11-17-15-56-31-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School Board President Gabriela López poses for a photo with a young supporter at the launch event for the No School Board Recalls campaign on Saturday Nov. 13. \u003ccite>(https://noschoolboardrecall.org/)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Black parents, like Leilani Ishaan, a product of SFUSD schools whose two sons graduated from district schools last year, are also skeptical of the intentions of the recall proponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't believe you when you say ‘all kids,’” she says. “All this is in the benefit of you because you're impacted right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What gets lost in all the adults fighting, Ishaan argues, is that students of color, like her son who went to Lowell High School, are the ones who stood to benefit from policies board members pursued that became so controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adults inserted themselves in a place they shouldn't have,” she says. “The board was good at being guided by the students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavonne Hines Foster, now in college, was one of the students guiding those changes as a student delegate on the school board last year. She also served as president of the Lowell High School Black Student Union. She says the policies students fought for are central to improving the quality of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Lowell admissions, the effort to enroll more Black and Latinx students is decades old, and the last time Black students demanded the school board take steps to address racism on campus in \u003ca href=\"https://thelowell.org/506/multimedia/videos/watch-the-black-student-unions-demands-at-the-board-meeting-after-student-walkout/\">2016\u003c/a>, little changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My four years at Lowell, I faced egregious incidents of racism dating from my first week to graduation senior year,” says Hines Foster. “That's the key reason why we're championing for Lowell to be open to all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, Collins and Moliga say their policymaking on the board has always been driven by community needs.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be told by a community of people who I know are privileged that we're not supporting the most marginalized, it was honestly hard for me because a part of me knew that they weren't seeing it and living it every day,”\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893795/all-political-sf-board-of-education-president-gabriela-lopez-on-the-recall-effort-against-her-2-other-board-members\"> López says\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López says \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2020/07/the-latino-task-force-emerges-to-take-on-covid-19/\">her work with the Latino Task Force\u003c/a> helped families meet basic needs early in the pandemic, and that work later helped inform policies in the city through its work with UCSF researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, says Collins, the former board president who filed a lawsuit against the district, “There is one consistent thing that [advisory councils and committees] say their children need: They need to see that their community, their history and their culture is reflected in the curriculum. ... That motivates kids when they see themselves in the curriculum, so that has a direct impact on achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their tenure, Collins, Moliga, López and their colleagues have taken steps to expand ethnic studies and anti-racist pedagogy, efforts that build on the work of past boards and respond to community advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/archived-press-releases/091119-sf-board-education-passes-resolution-support-equity-studies\">board adopted a plan\u003c/a> to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/school-board-working-to-put-ethnic-studies-at-heart-of-district-curriculum/\">an ethnic studies lens to all curricula district-wide\u003c/a>, a plan Collins says grew out of an African American Parent Advisory Council survey of principals that found too many schools weren’t teaching Black history. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/african-american-achievement-leadership-initiative/black-history-resource-guide\">Black parents worked with educators to build a resource guide on teaching Black history\u003c/a> that’s become the model for rethinking how Asian American, Latinx and Native American history is taught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses and a jean jacket leans against a bookcase in a classroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52662_001_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tara Ramos, a teacher librarian at Sanchez Elementary and parent of a third grader in the district, poses for a portrait at the school in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>López and Moliga laid the groundwork to channel more resources toward closing achievement gaps for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/121119-sfusd-board-education-passes-resolution-aimed-improving-latinx-student-success\">Latinx\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sf-board-education-updates-resolution-enhancing-equitable-services-hawaiian-and-pacific-islander\">Pacific Islander students\u003c/a>, while Collins and López put forward an \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/BDCTQF78773A/%24file/195-28A1%20Rights%20of%20all%20students%20to%20Arts%20Learning%20.pdf\">arts equity resolution\u003c/a> ensuring all schools have an art teacher and all students have access to free instruments. Moliga also led efforts \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sf-board-education-paves-way-building-more-affordable-educator-housing\">to develop affordable housing\u003c/a> for educators, while \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/11/24/is-california-in-a-better-place-than-it-was-during-last-years-pandemic-holidays-depends-where-you-live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Collins worked with the American Indian/Alaskan Native Parent Advisory Council\u003c/a> to replace stereotypes and misinformation in district materials with accurate and culturally competent information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Tara Ramos, a teacher librarian at Sanchez Elementary, parent of a third grader in the district, and a union representative for \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/executive-board/\">United Educators of San Francisco\u003c/a>, the board members have stayed true to the values they ran on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We campaigned for them and elected them because we wanted something new and different,” says Ramos, a longtime parent advocate and one of the organizers for \u003ca href=\"https://noschoolboardrecall.org/\">Vote No School Board Recalls\u003c/a>. “As a city, we were ready to take on racist systems and structures in the school district and that's the work that they were doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More parents became intimately involved in the educational process during the pandemic. Many started paying attention to school board meetings for the first time, and many didn’t like what they saw, whether it was delays in reopening schools, mask mandates or ethnic studies curricula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos referred to it as the “gentrification of parent activism.” She would have liked to see the newly active parents work with established parent advocacy groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just coming in assuming that there is no work being done and only putting forth your issues — what's important for you and your kids — and not thinking about what other people's issues are and what their kids need,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\" alt='A yellow pin on a black jacket says \"Racial Justice Not Recalls.\" ' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52676_016_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD teacher and school board recall opponent Cynthia Meza wears a pin that says, \"Racial Justice Not Recalls,\" outside of Leonard Flynn Elementary School in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, recalls have spiked. Ballotpedia has tallied 84 school board recall efforts this year, up from an annual average of 23 per year between 2006 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco recall supporters interviewed by KQED are loath to align themselves with the wave of anti-school board sentiment fed by fledgling conservative groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/moms-for-liberty-parents-rights/2021/10/14/bf3d9ccc-286a-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html\">Moms for Liberty\u003c/a>, but a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/08/moms-for-liberty-education-elections/\">op-ed by the group’s founders\u003c/a> echoes arguments made by local recall supporters about school boards prioritizing social justice over reopening classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many others, the cost of the recall, just nine months before the commissioners are up for reelection, is reason enough to oppose it. \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-and-supervisor-rafael-mandelman-propose-funding-upcoming-elections\">Mayor Breed is seeking $12 million to cover the cost of the February election\u003c/a>, which includes the recall and other contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD teacher Cynthia Meza, who has three kids in the district and once worked with López at Leonard Flynn Elementary School, finds the argument that the recall will improve conditions hollow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's no way that that recall is going to close the learning loss. If anything, it's going to make it that much worse,” she says. “Those people that are supporting this recall are stealing from our students of color that need it most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11897133\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a green t-shirt and two women, one wearing a navy blue shirt and the other with a black jacket, yellow pin and shirt with a flowers stand on the street. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52670_009_SanFrancisco_SchoolBoardRecallOpponents_11192021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD teachers and school board recall opponents (from left) Alex DiCicco, Karina Hwang and Cynthia Meza stand outside Leonard Flynn Elementary School in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To defend the cost of the recall for the cash-strapped district, recall co-lead Autumn Looijen draws a comparison to the second impeachment of former president Donald Trump days before the end of his term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why did we do that? Because we needed to send a message that some sorts of behavior are not acceptable from public officials,” she says. “That's what we're doing here. We're saying, ‘We were in crisis and you abandoned our children. We were in crisis and you left the most vulnerable kids behind. Don't ask them to wait for justice.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The urgency is also about installing new board members in time to choose the next superintendent after Vincent Matthews retires in the summer, Raj and Looijen say. They want leaders in place that they trust to manage the district’s budget crisis. If any of the board members are recalled, Mayor Breed would appoint their replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD parent Fernando Marti, who leads the Council of Community Housing Organizations and worked with Moliga on his \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about/news/current-news/sf-board-education-paves-way-building-more-affordable-educator-housing\">educator housing initiative\u003c/a>, says he understands the recall supporters’ frustration. But, rather than blaming the school board, Marti sees larger systemic flaws as the culprit for the school district’s dysfunction, which has historically failed students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's got to do with taxation, revenue, funding and all of those things that are prerequisites to have the right programs in place and have the right structures in place to meet a crisis like this,” he says. “And we simply don't have that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sf-school-board-recall\">a series of interviews\u003c/a> that KQED has conducted with all three San Francisco school board members facing recall elections in February.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to recall San Francisco Board of Education members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga is gaining momentum with high profile endorsements from state Sen. Scott Wiener and Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the board’s defenders are getting ready to fight back. The group NoSchoolBoardRecall has begun collecting donations, and Vice President Moliga has launched his own campaign. \u003ca href=\"https://uesf.org/news/uesf-statement-on-board-of-education-recall/\">The union representing San Francisco teachers said it opposes the recall effort\u003c/a>, but for now will remain on the sidelines, with a focus on educating voters, according to its leadership. On social media the recall’s proponents have accused the union of taking a more active role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall leaders argue the board unnecessarily delayed reopening classrooms while prioritizing, and mismanaging, the renaming of schools and the admissions policy change at Lowell High School. But anger directed at Collins has been its own motivating force for some. Collins was stripped of her leadership position on the board over past Twitter comments resurfaced by recall proponent and Lowell alumna Diane Yap. In response, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">Collins sued the district for $87 million.\u003c/a> A judge dismissed the suit, and Collins dropped her effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED education reporter Vanessa Rancaño spoke with San Francisco Board of Education commissioner Alison Collins about that controversy and the broader recall effort.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alison Collins, San Francisco Board of Education commissioner\"]‘One of the things that I think makes me the most sad about this recall effort is that it takes needed energy away from meeting the needs of our most vulnerable communities who are still struggling with the impacts of the pandemic.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview from Nov. 15 has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: Do you draw a distinction between yourself and Gabriela Lopez and Faauuga Moliga in terms of whether you should be recalled? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alison Collins:\u003c/strong> No. We are all representing constituencies that have been underrepresented. We all come from community. We all value community voice. We may not always see eye to eye on how to get there. I think that is normal, healthy part of democracy, and I think it makes our board better that we do represent and reflect a variety of voices and constituencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m really proud of the work that we are doing because that expertise and direct experience inform the work that we’ve been doing, and it’s allowed us to really bridge some of these persistent gaps that have been named in the past, but that we haven’t been able to really address before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you going to campaign with them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think most of what we’ve been doing is doing the work. One of the things that I think makes me the most sad about this recall effort is that it takes needed energy away from meeting the needs of our most vulnerable communities who are still struggling with the impacts of the pandemic. I would much rather be talking to you about, how do we address sexual assault in our schools? How do we fully fund education in California? This is happening nationwide with an unprecedented amount of recalls across the country. It is a political tactic, and it’s unfortunate when politics gets in the way of us doing the work that we were elected to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How are you thinking about the mayor’s role in this recall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, education is always a political issue. Folks often want to use education as a talking point, you know, to engage with voters. Schools are always a very emotional issue. But we’re the ones that are most closely connected to the communities that we serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think four out of seven of us are credentialed educators. I always defer to the folks that are on the ground and are doing the work. And those are going to be the parents, parent leaders, students themselves and our educators that are in the schools. And those are the folks that we’re listening to.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alison Collins, San Francisco Board of Education commissioner\"]‘What happened to me was an information attack and the goal of it was to prevent me and President Lopez and others on our board from doing this racial equity work.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role do you think race plays in this recall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just about race. But I do think that when you look at some of the criticism directed specifically at the three of us … having a president that’s Latina, a vice president that’s Black and both also being women as well. I do think there are different standards. I think where this really shows up is not in critiques of policies, but in critiques of people. They invariably feed into tropes of certain racial, cultural or gender groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For a lot of parents who are supporting this recall they are frustrated around the reopening of schools, feeling like the board wasn’t listening to them and ignoring concerns about learning loss and mental health issues. They argue, if this board is so worried about equity, why are they doing these “symbolic” things and not reopening, which would help the kids who are most likely to suffer learning loss during the pandemic. What would you want to say to them?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We represent all parents and I’m a parent who wanted my teenagers to go back for sure, but there were also families that reached out to us that were worried. Our number one priority was opening schools safely, not opening schools at all costs. I’m proud of the work that our district has done and I think it reflects a wide range of perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This idea about learning loss — every year, the parent advisory council — the [American Indian/Alaskan Native Parent Advisory Council], the [Community Advisory Committee for Special Education for SFUSD], the English Learners Advisory Committee — present an official report to the Board of Education and there is one consistent thing that they say that their children need: they need to see that their community, history and culture is reflected in the curriculum. That motivates kids, so that has a direct impact on achievement. Anybody who’s saying they’re not focused on learning is actually just not aware or hasn’t been involved because that’s the work that we’re currently doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I want to ask you about the tweet controversy. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sf-school-board-recall\">part of a series of interviews\u003c/a> KQED has conducted with all three San Francisco school board members facing recall elections in February.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in nearly 40 years, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892743/recall-of-3-san-francisco-school-board-members-headed-to-ballot\">recall is headed to the ballot in San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters will be asked whether to keep or oust San Francisco Board of Education members Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga in three separate questions on a Feb. 15 special election ballot. If any are recalled, Mayor London Breed would choose their replacements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other four members of the board were elected last November, and therefore are not eligible to be recalled based on city elections rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting any recall on the ballot is tough, but a school board recall is an especially difficult proposition in normal times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The average voter doesn’t even think about the schools,” said Larry Tramutola, an Oakland-based political consultant who’s spent decades working on education-related campaigns. “You could stand on any corner in San Francisco, and despite San Francisco being highly educated, highly politically aware, if you ask 100 people who their school board members are, I’ll bet three can tell you who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gabriela López, SFUSD Board of Education president\"]'So to be told by a community of people who I know are privileged that we're not supporting the most marginalized ... it was honestly hard for me because a part of me knew that they weren't seeing it and living it every day.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these are hardly normal times. The California School Boards Association said there are roughly 60 recall attempts this year. “This is far beyond anything that’s ever been seen in California before,” said CSBA spokesperson Troy Flint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s in part because parents, forced to become more active participants in the educational process during distance learning, started paying more attention to school boards and didn’t like what they saw, whether it was delays in reopening schools for in-person learning, mask mandates or teaching critical race theory and ethnic studies, “even in California,” Flint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these recall efforts have already failed or are likely to fail. But in San Francisco, critics argued the board prioritized initiatives to rename schools and overhaul admissions procedures at Lowell High School rather than what they called the far more pressing issue of reopening classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grassroots momentum that created, plus some big donors, made for success. “When the recall ball starts rolling down the hill, it collects issues,” Tramutola said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, opponents of the effort are preparing to mount a defense. The group NoSchoolBoardRecall has begun collecting donations, and Commissioner Moliga has launched his own campaign. Meanwhile, United Educators of San Francisco President Cassondra Curiel said the teachers union will stay focused on educating voters for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED education reporter Vanessa Rancaño spoke with San Francisco Board of Education President Gabriela López about the recall effort against her and her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview from Oct. 25 has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Rancaño: Do you draw a distinction between yourself and Collins and Moliga? And do you think voters should draw distinctions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela López\u003c/strong>: That's a good question, and I really believe that they should view us as a board, because it really is a recall against the school board. There's a part of me that knows if they could do all seven they would have. There's been talks and attempts to do that as well. So in remaining united as we have been, considering the year we've had, that's important for voters to view as well because this is really part of a larger issue — on trying to take over school districts and school boards — that we're seeing across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed was pretty vocal about wanting schools reopened. She was openly critical of this renaming effort. How do you think about her role in this recall, as the official who would appoint a potential replacement? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the underlying issue is that fact: the amount of control that the city and the mayor would have over these positions. And I completely understand the area around reopening schools and the issues that that created. But what people fail to remember is during that time, at the beginning of this year, it wasn't even that long ago, we still weren't in a place where people had access to vaccines, where we were out of the tier that allowed us to be in-person and to be safe, and that we weren't ready to put people in that situation when it wasn't clear yet. Once that opportunity opened up in April, then we began to do that work, understanding that younger learners, who were the most impacted, should get priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this sense of just returning to return because of the pressure that people were giving us, or the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">the city sued the school district\u003c/a> — 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. 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.[aside postID=\"news_11892743,forum_2010101886188,news_11867599\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]But it didn't take away from the planning that was occurring already to [reopen schools]. The fact that we had been meeting and organizing and getting all of the information ready for our families — it didn't take away from that. So in fact, the response to the renaming and using that as an excuse of us not focusing on [just] one thing was what created the distraction, in my belief, because we were still doing all of that. We hadn't taken a break over the summer before, like we do in regular years. We've been meeting almost on a weekly basis. ... In fact, [it] was all people were doing seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role do you think race plays in this recall push? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously that's an important question, and I'm not going to say that we're not noticing that this is a recall against people of color, and it's against people who have also been doing a lot of work to support those communities across our city who are often not in these spaces. So, I do believe if it wasn't someone with my background, and I'll speak for myself, my experience, my understanding or cultural understandings, I don't think I would be getting as much pushback as I am now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[This recall] is aligned in many ways with other issues that are happening across the country. ... People might disagree, but I think a lot of the issues that we're facing have to do with who's in a position of power right now, who isn't usually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the criticisms that I am hearing again and again from the recall proponents is this idea of prioritizing politics or ideology over kids. Some people say that the reopening delay hurt disadvantaged kids in the district the most, and that the board was posturing — doing these ideological things like renaming, and Lowell — rather than focusing on reopening, which they argued was the most concrete thing that could have been done to support the most vulnerable or marginalized kids in the district. What do you make of that? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I certainly know is many of the criticisms that we're hearing I don't believe were on the ground in the communities most affected. When the pandemic started, a group of us in the Latino community formed the Latino Task Force, and a lot of our work was how do we support Latino communities who we know are most affected, least able to access resources, least able to take two weeks off if they get infected? And seeing that struggle ... I was surrounded by that every day just being on the ground, helping families navigate the tech platforms, hosting classes and being in their space, helping families sign up. I was seeing the real fear of being in a space that wasn't ready for them. I still hear about it, even though we're back now.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gabriela López\"]'This idea of trying to force us to come back when people weren't ready, when the city wasn't ready, when the country wasn't ready, is something I would not be able to stand by.'[/pullquote]So to be told by a community of people who I know are privileged that we're not supporting the most marginalized ... it was honestly hard for me because a part of me knew that they weren't seeing it and living it every day. I heard stories of families who for eight months didn't leave their homes. And this idea of trying to force us to come back when people weren't ready, when the city wasn't ready, when the country wasn't ready, is something I would not be able to stand by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Returning to schools] was not safe until maybe April. And even then the schools weren't designed to support us in this way. And we have a prime example right now: One of our school sites — Buena Vista Horace Mann — is operating under horrible conditions that we've been learning about over and over, and families have that understanding. So to be told that we are returning to school buildings that aren't in the best conditions, but that we're going to be safe, especially during a pandemic, is really hard for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you see any validity in the anger expressed in this recall effort?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I, of course, do. I know that we are living through a horrible, stressful time, and to feel like your concerns aren't heard and the issues aren't being resolved, is infuriating. And I completely, completely understand that and believe that. My response to people who have been in that position has always been to be as open as I can, to be available to communicate, have conversations, maybe even explain further to get through what's being either miscommunicated or not communicated during our board meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think one thing that I keep hearing is, I don't listen to parents — and that's far from the truth. Part of my daily routine is talking to at least one parent. And those have just become habits that have grown in the position that I've created for myself in this role, and continues to be even when people are frustrated with our actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What have you found are the biggest obstacles to doing the sort of equity work you care about?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, it's really trying to educate people to see what we mean by this work, why we're pushing this work, why it's important to see who is affected, what they're telling us that the people aren't hearing during our meetings, and changing that. But I hear a lot of hate in the response. It reminds me of why I'm doing this work and why I need to keep pushing, but it's also very toxic and frustrating and tiring. That balance to keep going is really tricky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have greater political aspirations? Would you run again for the board? What's next?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To say it plainly, no, no, no. Obviously I've learned a lot. When I first began, I remember saying I was very, very grateful to be in this position. As soon as I became president, and this year and everything that came with it happened, that started to shift. ... It was just kind of a clear indication of why people say politics is dirty and why regular people — I consider myself to be a regular worker, an educator who really wanted to make an impact at a policy level — get drained out. When I ran, it was because people were supportive and encouraged me and motivated me to do it. And the reason why I kept doing that work is because of those people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never have [and] never will have aspirations for higher office, even though I know this position is set up for that. If you take a look at our Board of Supervisors, even the many who are in those positions now running for higher office, that is far from where I ever see myself being. My world is in education. ... 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"content": "\u003cp>The campaign to recall three members of the San Francisco Board of Education has submitted enough valid signatures to put the questions before voters next year, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882638/turbulent-times-for-san-franciscos-school-district\">referendum on the district's handling of the coronavirus pandemic\u003c/a> and its stewardship of the city's schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's Department of Elections announced Monday that recalls against Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga will appear as three separate questions on a Feb. 15 special election ballot, after organizers submitted far more than the 51,325 signatures per member required to force a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote will be the first ballot recall of a San Francisco official in nearly 40 years, since then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein defeated a recall with 81% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a huge relief to know that we're on the ballot and we're going to be finishing this journey a year and a day after we started it,\" said Autumn Looijen, co-chair of the recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looijen and Siva Raj launched the recall effort in February 2021, as San Francisco school \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11861466/sfusd-isnt-alone-escalating-pressures-facing-lawmakers-in-school-reopening-debate-across-bay-area\">board members faced escalating pressure from some parents to resume in-person learning\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the board argued that members had prioritized initiatives to rename certain schools and revamp the admissions process at Lowell High School over what they considered to be the far more pressing issue of reopening classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Looijen said the recall is not just a punishment for past decisions, but a way to ensure sound management of a district that currently faces a $116 million budget deficit for the 2022-2023 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For us, it's not a question of consequences, it's a question of competence — whether they have the skills necessary to deal with the budget crisis,\" Looijen said. \"They've shown no propensity for having deep, nuanced conversations about the problem, and we need someone who will listen to the whole community when they're making big cuts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If any of the three board members is recalled, San Francisco Mayor London Breed would appoint their replacement. 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Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said the removal of the board members will give the mayor power over the school board at the expense of parent and teacher voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As educators who love our communities and care for our students, we are urging voters to reject this recall,\" Curiel said. \"The recall will waste precious resources when decision-makers need to be laser-focused on meeting the needs of our students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>COVID-19 closures and restrictions have served as flashpoints for school politics beyond San Francisco, said Joshua Spivak, senior fellow at the Hugh L. 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