How did the East Bay do with schools - e.g. is there a Lowell-type question around "meritocracy" or test-based admissions? I live in Sunnyside and when I went to the Safeway I always saw Asian American organizing around the school board recall and Lowell was a big point of contention.
Those schools don't exist in the East Bay. Admissions tests for high school are rather old fashioned and archaic. The only magnet schools in the east bay are usually performance or art schools.
Bernal was against the recall too. North Bernal was 70/30.
I think gentrification had a lot to do with it. All the parts of The City with lots of new residents heavily voted for the recall and that they were most of the margin. Ten years ago this would not have happened. The new wealthier residents, most of them in tech, are more conservative.
I'm just not convinced that tech voters out voted incumbents or that it would explain the margins on the westside. Generally Mission-Bernal vote progressive and were predictably against the Recall. Although these neighborhoods have gentrified tremendously with tech workers so shouldn't they have voted yes?
How did the East Bay do with schools - e.g. is there a Lowell-type question around "meritocracy" or test-based admissions? I live in Sunnyside and when I went to the Safeway I always saw Asian American organizing around the school board recall and Lowell was a big point of contention.
Those schools don't exist in the East Bay. Admissions tests for high school are rather old fashioned and archaic. The only magnet schools in the east bay are usually performance or art schools.
Bernal was against the recall too. North Bernal was 70/30.
I think gentrification had a lot to do with it. All the parts of The City with lots of new residents heavily voted for the recall and that they were most of the margin. Ten years ago this would not have happened. The new wealthier residents, most of them in tech, are more conservative.
I'm just not convinced that tech voters out voted incumbents or that it would explain the margins on the westside. Generally Mission-Bernal vote progressive and were predictably against the Recall. Although these neighborhoods have gentrified tremendously with tech workers so shouldn't they have voted yes?