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To Wednesday, February 16th, from Peach Fish Productions, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

You may recall some news out of San Francisco about the school board there, renaming schools

or tearing down murals or apologizing for old anti-agent tweets. Well, even if you don't

recall overnight parents in San Francisco, we called three school board members.

Come with me on a little bit of a journey.

By voting totals, that political science experts, dub not even close, Alison Collins, Foga

Maliga, and school board president Gabriela Lopez were terminated by voters. Maliga, who

had tried to distance himself from the uncompromisingly reformist instincts of the other board members

fared the best, and he only got 72% of voters demanding that he go away.

Running the schools of large cities is never an easy job and it's hard to satisfy all

constituencies, but the San Francisco school board seemed quite content with satisfying almost

no constituencies. The first decision that garnered national attention of this group was the

decision to rename schools, 44 schools in fact, at an estimated price in the hundreds of

thousands of dollars. Among the names to be scrubbed was George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,

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