Amid threats of a lawsuit and to recall three of its members, San Francisco's school board is postponing its plan to rename 44 school sites whose namesakes have been accused of taking racist actions against various peoples of color.
Instead, it intends to focus all of its attention for now on getting its schools reopened for in-person instruction. Unlike private and parochial schools in the city, San Francisco's public schools have yet to reopen nearly a year after the COVID pandemic led to their closure.
Union leaders and school officials have been trying to work out a deal to get both personnel and pupils back into the classrooms.