Our Challenge

Our public schools are mismanaged and underperforming. During the COVID crisis, even when it was already clear that reopening schools was safe, the San Francisco Board of Education kept schools closed for more than half a year after. This led to immeasurable harm to our kids’ learning, and their social, mental, and physical development. Instead of helping our kids, the Board decided to give in to the teachers’ union’s demands. 

The San Francisco Unified School District, failing to lift up underperforming kids, instead lowered standards to make it look as if it was meeting its goals. Accelerated math classes, gone. Algebra, gone. Advanced placement for talented kids, funding reduced. Meanwhile, on the state level, Democrats are seeking to “deemphasize” calculus. Lowell Highschool’s merit-based admissions, the only path for talented kids from poor families to make their way into elite colleges, have been replaced by the lottery system - disproportionately hurting Asian-American kids.

The Board also managed San Francisco Unified School Districts’ finances so poorly, and created such debt, that it nearly drove the district into state conservatorship. The fact that one in twenty San Francisco families with kids in public schools decided to send their kids to private schools instead in the 2020/2021 school year made the budget shortfall even worse. 

All the while our city’s education crisis kept getting worse, the Board of Education wasted time with an ill-conceived and ill-researched scheme to rename our schools. 

The Solution

• Find ways to improve teacher compensation state-wide. Our greatest asset in our fight to fix our schools is our teachers. They are doing a great job under very difficult conditions (especially during the Covid crisis). Their work is often underappreciated and underpaid - and they shouldn’t have to pay for school supplies out of their own pocket.
• Launch a comprehensive program to address learning shortfalls in underprivileged kids.
• Go back to higher standards and testing for more accountability and better education.
• Reintroduce algebra and accelerated math classes and defend the teaching of calculus. Refund Advanced Placement.
• Reinstate merit-based admissions at Lowell Highschool
• Seek a review and reform of the district’s finances and get expenses back in line with income. This will include a review of the top-heavy senior management positions versus the number of students in the district.
• Prohibit indoctrination of our kids in elementary school with socialist or other extreme left-wing ideologies, and sexual education in grades K-4 without parents’ consent.
• Offer school vouchers to all parents with school-age kids. Many parents see the value in sending their kids to a public school - if they do a solid job. If not, parents deserve a choice.