As reported by Fox News, in January 2021, San Francisco citizens launched a recall of President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga and Commissioner Alison Collins, “claiming the school board members poorly chose their priorities, which included the renaming of 44 schools, but were slow to reopen district schools that were closed under the coronavirus pandemic.”
As noted by The New York Times, the board wanted to rename 44 schools in the city based on progressive ideology. Collins also came under fire anti-Asian tweets.
The targeted schools carry the names of a range of historical figures including Abraham Lincoln and the three other presidents chiseled into Mount Rushmore; Spanish conquerors such as Vasco Núñez de Balboa; John Muir, the naturalist and author; and Paul Revere, the Revolutionary War figure.