November 03, 2021

The SFUSD Board Recall Election is Set. We Revisit Student Voices

17 minutes

3 members of the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education will be facing a recall vote in February. The special election encompasses a whole host of polarizing issues in the district: in-person learning, the admissions policy at Lowell High School, the effort to rename schools, Commissioner Alison Collins’ 2016 tweets that were seen as anti-Asian, and more.

Throughout these crises, student voices have often remained on the periphery. So today, we’re revisiting an episode from April where we hear SFUSD students sharing their views — and how they feel about the debate happening around them.

Guest: Holly J. McDede, KQED reporter and producer

This episode originally aired on April 19, 2021.

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