SF Mayor London Breed says students won t likely return to classrooms this year
KTVU s Christien Kafton reports.
SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - San Francisco Mayor London Breed said she doesn t believe public schools will reopen this year, even as she pushes for a return to in-person learning.
She also announced the city will begin administering vaccines to teachers on Feb. 24.
Again, Breed said that reopening public schools needs to be a priority and she reiterated her support for the city s lawsuit against the school district and school board that is aimed at getting kids back in class for in-person learning.
San Francisco public schools have sat empty for 11 months, and 56,000 students have been learning remotely. And Breed said she doesn t see a current path to have kids back in the classroom before the end of this school year.
Today 100 high school athletes, some from the Bay Area, will deliver 10,000 signatures to Governor Gavin Newsom in an effort to bring back sports immediately.
Chotiner asked López about problems like these. He gives another example of the board getting their history wrong: “There was a question about James Russell Lowell and whether he wanted Black people to vote, which he was actually in favor of. The name of this businessman, James Lick, was ordered removed because his foundation funded an installation that didn’t go up until almost two decades after he died… But that’s not something you’re concerned about?”
“No,” López replies. Then she reframes the issue, again essentially saying political narrative is more important than reality. She acknowledges maybe the board could be convinced to fix their inaccuracies but maintains the inaccuracies are less important than the board’s political goals.