EDUCATION ISSUES, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, RACISM, RE-NAMING SCHOOLS--THE SAN FRANCISCO SAGA---3 PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS REMOVED IN LANDSLIDE SPECIAL VOTE

ALL THREE REMOVED---excerpted--One of the first issues to grab national attention was the board’s January 2021 decision to rename 44 schools they said honored public figures linked to racism, sexism and other injustices. On the list were Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and trailblazing U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.  The effort drew swift criticism for historical mistakes. Critics said it made a mockery of the country’s racial reckoning. Angry parents asked why the board would waste time renaming schools when the priority needed to be reopening classrooms. After an uproar, the school board scrapped the plan.

Collins came under fire again for tweets she wrote in 2016 that were widely criticized as racist. In them Collins, who is Black, said Asian Americans used “white supremacist” thinking to get ahead and were racist toward Black students. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT https://nypost.com/2022/02/16/san-francisco-recalls-gabriela-lopez-faauuga-moliga-alison-collins-off-citys-school-board/

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San Francisco Voters Overwhelmingly Back Recall of Progressive School-Board Members....San Francisco residents overwhelmingly voted to oust three of the city’s progressive school-board members on Tuesday. It was the culmination of a year-long effort to reform the board, which has been accused of prioritizing social-justice politics over reopening schools and managing the district’s troubled finances during the Covid-19 pandemic. MORE AT NATIONAL REVIEW HERE.