Gavin Newsom loves to take credit for San Francisco’s schools improvements even though the Mayor has very little influence or power over public school matters.
The San Francisco Board of Education is an independently elected body that has jurisdiction over public education, not the Mayor.
But Gavin lives on a fantasy island where any school improvement is a result of his leadership. He has nothing to do with our schools. In fact, he’s using them as a public toilet.
According to allegations spelled out in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court last Monday and reported in SF Weekly, Newsom’s staff has repeatedly ordered the school district to replace current school workers with laid off city employees. The school district says it’s Newsom’s staff who are violating the law.
Under the state’s constitution, school districts are separate agencies, managed by independent school boards, and not subject to control by mayors, county supervisors, or other municipal officials.
If the school district’s legal complaint is accurate, however, the mayor’s only direct involvement in schools’ management has been an attempt to illegally pressure administrators into replacing their own staff with unwanted city workers.
In other words, Gavin Newsom is no civil service reformer.
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