Legal Education
Feb. 24, 2022
Not getting the basics: Hastings name-change debate and the SF school board
At a minimum, any decision on removing the Hastings name from the college should be part of the over-all analysis and decision about how the state intends to address “the historical relationship between the State of California and California Native Americans.”
A Los Angeles Times columnist has attributed the recent recall of three members of the San Francisco Board of Education to them "not getting the basics right" -- that is, putting their efforts to "remediate the country's history of injustices" ahead of the kids' education. As a Wall Street Journal columnist put it: to the school board the, "problem wasn't whether the kids were getting an education, it was whether the boarded up schools had unfortunate names. They spen...
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