![]() ![]() Scott said public outcry led him to take the case. They added that they didn’t realize the resolution was final until the end of the meeting, as well as in a press release issued afterward. 26 meeting “gave no indication that the Board was going to make a final decision to rename 44 San Francisco public schools in a single vote at the meeting.” Their petition filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court says the school board passed its resolution without holding a properly noticed public hearing on each individual school, and that an agenda item associated with the issue at the Jan. Scott represents alumni associations from Abraham Lincoln and George Washington high schools, the San Francisco Taxpayers Association, former Contra Costa County Superintendent of Schools Karen Shigezumi Sakata, a graduate of George Washington, and former congressman John Burton, a graduate of Abraham Lincoln. "This was a top-down process that failed to give all members of individual school communities the opportunity to express what they wanted for their particular school." attorney Paul Scott said by phone on Thursday. ![]() He ordered the district to either vacate its renaming resolution and dissolve the School Names Advisory Committee or to show good cause for why it has not done so at a hearing set for May 6. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The San Francisco school board’s 6-1 vote to remove the names of historical and political figures from 44 public schools has drawn a legal challenge from a local attorney and a famed legal scholar, with a lawsuit that claims it was done hastily, without due process and to the exclusion of opposing voices.Īnd in a ruling late Thursday, Judge Ethan Schulman agreed.
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