News Update

Recall election to be held in February for three San Francisco Unified school board members

Three of San Francisco Unified’s seven school board members will be up for recall in a special election to be held Feb. 15, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

City officials announced Monday that the campaign to recall President Gabriela Lopez, Vice President Faauuga Molida and Commissioner Alison Collins had gathered enough valid signatures to put the decision to voters. The Chronicle noted this will be the first local San Francisco recall election since 1983, when then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein beat a recall effort.

The recall effort was launched by San Francisco Unified parents frustrated that schools remained closed last school year despite private schools reopening, according to the Chronicle. City and county officials also called on Collins to resign over what they said were anti-Asian tweets from 2016.