Participants of San Francisco Parent Action’s Board of Education Bootcamp Fellowship at their graduation from the program.
Courtesy: San Francisco Parent Action
Three difficult years as parents of San Francisco Unified public school students has motivated each of us to consider running for office and taking part in a candidate training program with a local public school advocacy organization, San Francisco Parent Action.
Beyond the last three years of Covid closures, a slow re-opening, bungled budgets, poor governance, and even a failed lawsuit from a sitting commissioner, past San Francisco Unified boards developed a track record of taking performative action rather than focusing on student outcomes and good governance. The school board is a citywide race that many in the political world see as a steppingstone to running for district supervisor in the city, and for years, the political ambitions of school board…
