ANN HSU CALLS ON ALL BOARD OF EDUCATION CANDIDATES TO JOIN HER IN SIGNING A PLEDGE TO TAKE POLITICS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!

August 13, 2024, SAN FRANCISCO — Board of Education candidate Ann Hsu pledges that she will put San Francisco students and families first, will serve out her term if elected and will not run for higher office after leaving the Board of Education for five years.

50 years ago, SFUSD served more than 90,000 students. Today, the District serves less than 50,000 students. Enrollment has been declining while budgets have been increasing, and the number of schools has grown to over 120.  SFUSD has not been adjusting its budget and facilities to its decreasing student population and has been mismanaging funds for years. The Board of Education has allowed this to happen while it pursued ideological political goals. The structural deficit has been acknowledged and discussed for years, but the Board of Education has not had the political will to address the issue.

The District and the Board of Education are now at the end of the road, and the State and the City cannot bail it out as they have in previous years because they too are in a fiscal deficit crisis. Three (3) years ago the State sent fiscal experts to SFUSD, and they warned the District to stop “kicking the can down the road” to no avail. As of March 2024, these fiscal experts have been elevated to fiscal advisers with the power to veto any decision made by the Board of Education related to finances and force the District to take steps.

The Board of Education is facing and will continue to face difficult decisions related to the fiscal crisis and closing of schools. Now more than ever, politics cannot be a factor in decisions that must be made to balance fiscal challenges with the needs of students and parents.

“I call on all BOE candidates to join me and sign the attached pledge to put San Francisco students and families first, and not run for higher office after leaving the Board of Education for five years!”  Ann Hsu

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Ann Hsu is a School Founder and Principal and the mother of twin SFUSD graduates. She is also a former Board of Education Commissioner, Chair of the Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee, President of the Galileo High School PTSA and a leader of the successful Recall School Board campaign. She has founded and managed 3 companies over 18 years. Ann immigrated to America with her family at age 11, fleeing China after her father was forced into a reeducation camp during the Cultural Revolution. She holds a BS in electrical engineering from Penn State University, a MS in electrical engineering and MBA from UC Berkeley. 

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徐安呼籲所有教育委員會候選人與她一起簽署承諾書！

【2024年8月13日， 舊金山】—— 教育委員會候選人徐安 (Ann Hsu) 承諾，她將把舊金山的學生和家庭放在第一位，如果當選，她將完成任期，並且在離開教育委員會後的五年内不會競選更高職位。 

50 年前，舊金山聯合校區（SFUSD）服務了超過 90,000 名學生；目前該學區僅服務不到50,000名學生。入學人數一直在減少，但預算卻不斷地在增加，學校數量如今已增至 120多所。舊金山聯合學區一直沒有根據學生人數的減少來調整其預算和設施，並且多年來一直對資金管理不善；教育委員會對此視而不見。結構性赤字已被承認並討論多年，但教育委員會因政治信仰而從未解決這個問題。

目前，舊金山聯合校區和教育委員會已經走到了路的盡頭，州政府和市政府無法像前幾年那樣對其進行救助，因為它們自己也陷入了財政赤字危機。三年前，當州政府任命財政專家擔任舊金山聯合學區顧問時，他們就已警告該學區停止“把問題拖延下去”，但毫無效果。截至2024年3月，這些財務專家現已成為具有否決任何與財務相關決策權力的財務顧問，並迫使該區採取措施。

教育委員會目前及未來將繼續面臨與財政危機和學校關閉相關的艱難決策。在這一關鍵時刻，政治比以往任何時候都更不能成為平衡財政挑戰與學生和家長需求決策中的因素。 

“我呼籲所有教育委員會候選人與我一起簽署一份承諾書，將舊金山學生和家庭放在第一位，並在離開教育委員會後五年內不競選更高職位！”——徐安

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徐安是學校創始人兼校長，前教育委員會委員、公民債券監督委員會主席、伽利略高中家長教師協會主席以及罷免教委運動的領導人，也是舊金山聯合學區雙胞胎畢業生的母親。因為父親在文化大革命期間被送進再教育營，徐安十一歲時與家人逃離了中國，移民到美國。她擁有賓夕法尼亞州立大學電機工程學士學位、加州大學柏克萊分校電機工程碩士學位和工商管理碩士學位。