Update 10: Drive-thru petition signing and the full case for recalling the school board.
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Update 9: The school board recall petitions are ready to sign — just when we need them most. No one thought the school board could become any more dysfunctional. But is has. A recall can’t come soon enough. Instructions on how to download, print, and sign your petition.
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Update 8: As the San Francisco school board descends into ever-more chaos and controversy, we must keep perspective on why the call to replace and reform the school board was raised in the first place.
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Update 7: Meet the mom behind the powerful parent movement to safely open all of San Francisco’s public schools full time — against all odds.
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Update 6: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board. Includes news about charter amendment to appoint versus elect school board..
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Update 5: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board. Includes news about recall.
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Update 4: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board. Includes news about recall launch.
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Update 3: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board.
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Update 2: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board.
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Update 1: Newsletter about actions to change or reform the school board.
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Frustrated by the way San Francisco’s public schools are run but don’t know what to do about it? Here are the options for recalling or fundamentally changing the school board along with the pros and cons.
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There is an effort to rename dozens of San Francisco’s public schools, out of concern that they honor people with troubling histories. Yet a parent advocacy group reviewed the school board’s renaming process and gave it a failing grade for being “deeply flawed.”
Do you know your generations? From the Lost Generation to Millennials and beyond, learn more with this “Generations 101” explainer.
Public school parents have to deal with a school board that seems to revel in finding ways to let them down. When the frustration becomes unbearable, families choose private school or leave San Francisco. We need a school board willing to win them back.
I oppose the school board’s plan to change admission to Lowell High School to a random lottery no longer based on academic achievement. Sign the petition by Families for San Francisco that asks the school board to reconsider this plan.
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With all the challenges the world faces today, why do we need a $40 million memorial to World War I? Because today’s great grandchildren are still fighting it. And we still haven’t learned “what is past is prologue.”
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Heroin needles and broken glass from car break-ins litter San Francisco streets. Property crimes and housing prices continue to soar. Perhaps our city should turn its lonely eyes to Assessor Carmen Chu: "Think of me as your neighborhood assessor."
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Riding a tech bus to Silicon Valley has nothing to do with hepatitis B, but there's a good chance some of the passengers have the virus and don't know it. Why? Major risk factors include being millennial and Asian & Pacific Islander (APIs comprise nearly half of tech jobs and a quarter of the population in the Bay Area). Inaction can lead to death by liver cancer. That's why Arcadi Kolchak and Richard So are fighting to save their generation — and yours.
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Iris Bonilla, 20, feels the pressure of being the only Latina in the room — in her college computer classes and at her tech company internship. But don’t call her a unicorn. Hard work, not magic, has gotten her this far. There’s a very real program that academically pushes and supports underserved public school students like Iris to get into and survive college. “Having to represent an entire community is a lot to put on one pair of shoulders,” Iris said. “It’s been nerve-wracking to prove that I can do it. But I think that I have so far.”
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September 17 doesn’t get much love. Yet it’s a day that should be as celebrated as Christmas or the 4th of July. Learn about Constitution Day, the most important holiday no one knows about.
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