San Francisco Voters Oust 3 School Board Members in Recall
After years of friction, they lose in a landslide.
Supporters of the San Francisco School Board recall gather at Carl Larsen Park in San Francisco, on Feb. 12.
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San Francisco voters overwhelmingly recalled three of the city’s seven school board members, after years of racial turmoil and a delayed return to in-person schooling during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Tuesday special election was influenced by the board’s decision to make admission to the city’s most prestigious high school dependent on a lottery rather than academic metric — and by the discovery of social media posts made in 2016 by one of the commissioners that disparaged Asian-Americans.