S.F. teachers union out to beat 3 Board of Education trustees

In a classic game of payback, the San Francisco teachers union has launched a campaign to defeat all three school board members up for re-election in November.

The union's beef with the three started in February when the board tried to bypass seniority rules so it could avoid laying off teachers at 14 struggling schools. That would have meant teachers with more experience at other schools would have faced the ax.
Union head Dennis Kelly shouted at the board members that night, "It will not be forgotten. It will not be forgiven."

Even though the board later reversed its decision after an administrative law judge supported the union's appeal, the union is still steamed.

"They never said, 'What we did was not right, and we're sorry that we did it,' " Kelly said.

So, no apology, no endorsement. Come Nov. 6, the union is out to get incumbents Jill Wynns, who didn't win its endorsement last time out, and Sandra Lee Fewer and Rachel Norton, who did.

Instead, the union is going with four newcomers - Matt Haney, Beverly Popek, Sam Rodriguez and Shamann Walton - and plans to campaign for them, hard.




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