SF Politics Recall SF School Board Movement Sues Over Democratic Party Opposing Recall; Breed Proposes New Board Oversight The war over the SF Board of Education ramped up Monday as Mayor London Breed proposed a charter amendment that would limit the power of the board, and the recall movement is suing to halt a negative endorsement by the local Democratic Party.
SF News SFUSD Will Present Plan Today to Trim $125 Million Deficit: Basically Layoffs, Layoffs, Layoffs The school district’s deficit is even larger than we thought, and tonight the school board meets to figure out how to reduce it enough to avoid a state takeover.
SF News Lowell High Alums Take More Legal Action To Undo Lottery Admissions After already suing the district over changes to Lowell’s merit-based admissions system, a group of Lowell High alumni are seeking a court injunction against attempts to diversify the prestigious high school’s student body.
SF Politics Yes, SFUSD is Running a Huge Deficit — But So Are Other Districts All Over the State The ‘Recall the School Board’ crowd points to the school district’s $116 million deficit, but a little perspective comes from realizing that pretty much every other district in the state also has a huge deficit.
SF Politics School Board Recall Election Confirmed for February A special election to decide on a recall of three San Francisco school board members has been confirmed for February 15 — setting up the first of potentially several city elections happening next spring.
SF Politics Alison Collins Drops Her Lawsuit Against the School Board and District That a Judge Already Tossed Out Embattled and recall-threatened school board member Alison Collins has withdrawn the bizarre lawsuit she filed in March demanding $87 million in various damages from her fellow board members and the school district.
SF News Recall School Board Crowd Claims They Have More Than Enough Signatures to Make Ballot Looks like SF voters will see a recall election for three school board members, as that effort claims they have well exceeded the number of signatures required to trigger an election.
SF News SF School Board Does About-Face On School Renaming; Superintendent Delays Retirement Until 2022 Amid calls on social media for all of them to be recalled, San Francisco's embattled Board of Education is saying that it will reverse its decision on renaming 44 schools in the district in favor of a different, "more deliberative" process at a later date.
SF Politics School Board Replacement Measure Introduced by Political Action Committee A ballot measure to make the school board appointed by City Hall, instead of elected, is in the works — but the political action committee behind the effort might not exactly be “grassroots.”
SF News Pilloried By Fox News For Proposal To Rename SF Schools, Board Of Ed President Backs Down Pretty much immediately after new-ish Board of Education President Matt Haney, who is also running for re-election in November, floated the idea of re-naming local schools in San Francisco for local figures of
SF News Dude Proposes Marriage During School Board Meeting We don't know if this qualifies as quirkily romantic, or if it's just the most awkward, political-wonky marriage proposal of the year, but a guy proposed to school board member and City Hall
