The Battle Over San Francisco’s Schools

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🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

After dragging its feet on reopening schools this winter, the San Francisco Unified School District school board is under fire. Their every decision is being scrutinized by angry parents and three of its members are facing recall elections. What happens when the school board debate comes to the Bay? Guest: Jill Tucker, education writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.2	Over the last year, I have seen so many school board meetings.
0:40.5	Angry meetings, meetings where parents were dragged out the door, meetings where whole contingents
0:46.7	of observers jeered and then sang the star-spangled banner.
0:52.2	But I've never seen a school board meeting quite like this.
0:56.3	Well, calm, please.
0:57.9	Thank you.
0:58.9	Thank you very much.
0:59.9	Mr. Alexander?
1:00.9	Yeah.
1:01.9	Mr. Bogus?
1:02.9	President.
1:05.1	This is a school board meeting from last January in San Francisco.
1:09.1	It was held over Zoom.
1:11.2	The president of the board kicked things off.
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