The school board recalls that shook San Francisco

In a widely watched special election this week, angry San Francisco voters recalled three school board members in a landslide. The other four, more recently selected, would have been expelled had the rules permitted it.

San Francisco’s municipal government is an embarrassment, and Exhibit A is its antic board of education. Some three quarters of city voters wanted them gone, and good riddance.

The recall’s success also pitted what remains of the city’s pragmatic Democratic ‘establishment’ against woke radicals, as elected officials including the mayor disavowed unpopular progressive policies and backed the removal of the board. District attorney Chesa Boudin, facing his own recall election on June 7, might be the next to go.

San Francisco is 8 per cent registered Republican, but the losers have blamed right-wing funders and Fox News for the outcome of the school board result. In fact, the recall evidences a seismic upsurge in parent resentment over public school closures, one that has been toppling boards across the country.