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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.

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022

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.

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