The Board of Education

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Low high school merit base admissions process that was cancelled hurriedly by the board of education. Seva: "We just felt very disrespectede discriminated against" The real challengeis that e no somsuscantlly, as one of the highest ties an educational outcome between white nation kids and black ndlatino kids across the state of californiarigt."

Flo Read meets Siva, Autumn, and Ann.

Public schools in San Francisco sent their students home for 18 months during the COVID pandemic, the longest school closure in the country. While children were falling behind at home, the city’s elected school board was tasked with handling the re-opening. But, it seemed, they were too busy trying to pander to progressive demands to get children back in the classroom. A group of parents, angry with the extended shutdown and dithering meetings, launched a campaign to recall three members of the school board. Last week, they won. Florence Read sat down with three parents involved in the recall, Autumn, Siva and Ann, to discuss why COVID has been such a disaster for San Francisco's schools.

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