SFUSD's "Equity" Lottery Backfired Spectacularly
A policy failure wrapped in virtue signaling: more segregation, 4,000 students gone, a bankrupt district—and it all started with anti-Chinese racism.
San Francisco's June 2026 ballot features Prop D, an "Overpaid CEO Tax" that critics say would exempt major tech firms while hitting grocery stores and pharmacies with an 800% rate hike. Meanwhile, SFUSD's board just voted 6-1 to adopt a new ethnic studies curriculum through a review process that set no passing threshold — and a legal challenge was filed the same night. Across both stories, the pattern is the same: city institutions making consequential decisions while insulating themselves from accountability.
A policy failure wrapped in virtue signaling: more segregation, 4,000 students gone, a bankrupt district—and it all started with anti-Chinese racism.
The SF Latinx Democratic Club reinstated its leader after sexual assault allegations—then fled the SF Dem party when Nancy Tung called for accountability
When illiberal ideas dressed up as progress demanded that equal rules are unjust, liberals had no answer. Now we do.
Dean Preston championed Providence Foundation as a model partnership. Now two employees face fraud charges.
A drunk driver hit her and fled. Flock cameras found them. Now privacy activists want to shut it all down.
A San Francisco court ruled the district broke the law. The story hits close to home for me.
Violent offenders are flooding a program designed for petty crimes. Public defenders call it "treatment." The numbers call it fraud.
SF nonprofits preside over overdose deaths while collecting billions. The city just renewed their contracts anyway.
San Francisco almost died from virtue signaling. The cure? Intellectual honesty—and the courage to speak it.
Feb. 4 deadline looms. If qualified attorneys don't file to run, voters won't even get a choice.