{"id":39637,"date":"2018-12-13T12:36:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=39637"},"modified":"2018-12-13T12:36:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:36:39","slug":"4th-grade-bilingual-teacher-becomes-youngest-ever-elected-to-sf-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/4th-grade-bilingual-teacher-becomes-youngest-ever-elected-to-sf-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"4th grade bilingual teacher becomes youngest-ever elected to SF school board"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39638\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181126_Gabriela-Lopez-BOE-0840-WEB.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39638\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181126_Gabriela-Lopez-BOE-0840-WEB.jpg?resize=864%2C576&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181126_Gabriela-Lopez-BOE-0840-WEB.jpg?w=864&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 864w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181126_Gabriela-Lopez-BOE-0840-WEB.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181126_Gabriela-Lopez-BOE-0840-WEB.jpg?resize=360%2C240&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/20181126_Gabriela-Lopez-BOE-0840-WEB.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Lopez, recently elected to the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education, poses for a portrait on Nov. 26 at Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School, a public school in the Mission District, where she currently teaches a 4th-grade bilingual class. Photo: Mabel Jim\u00e9nez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b>After running a grassroots, female-led campaign for one of three open seats, Gabriela Lopez became the first bilingual Spanish speaker and youngest woman ever elected to the San Francisco school board last month. However, the achievement is a double-edged sword, as Lopez is now forced to choose between holding her seat on the board and keeping her current job as a bilingual fourth grade teacher at Leonard Flynn Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">According to the city\u2019s education code (35107), \u201can employee of a school district may not be sworn into office as an elected or appointed member of that school district\u2019s governing board unless and until he or she resigns as an employee. If the employee does not resign, the employment will automatically terminate upon being sworn into office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">This law isn\u2019t exclusive to San Francisco, either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cThe law pertaining to an employee needing to resign in order to serve on the Board of Education is not an SFUSD [San Francisco Unified School District] policy, it is state law,\u201d said SFUSD spokesperson Gentle Blythe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Lopez was not only aware of the law, but used it as a platform for her campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cI think this poses a problem on its own as far as SFUSD employees pursuing something like this in the first place, if it means sacrificing their work and not being able to be in the community you\u2019re set to serve, which is what my platform was,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">The founders of the Teachers 4 Social Justice organization encouraged Lopez to run for the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>school board after seeing the candidates who had filed papers up to 18 months in advance. Lopez said they were concerned after seeing the list of people in the running.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39640\" style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GabrielaLopez-2-WEB-1.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-39640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GabrielaLopez-2-WEB-1.jpg?resize=449%2C409&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GabrielaLopez-2-WEB-1.jpg?w=489&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 489w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GabrielaLopez-2-WEB-1.jpg?resize=275%2C250&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Lopez, recently elected to the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education, sits with a family for a parent teacher conference at Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School. Photo: Mary Kate Murphy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cThese are people who don\u2019t have experience in schools, who don\u2019t work with youth, who have never worked with youth, who would be very detrimental,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople like that made other people feel very worried about who could potentially lead schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Lopez cited former candidate Josephine Zhao specifically. Zhao raised more money than any other candidate, but was found to have made transphobic comments about bathroom rights and eventually dropped from the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Throughout the campaign, Lopez continued her work and utilized a teacher volunteer group to help spread the word because they had no money for advertising, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cWe essentially had no support and we had the least amount of money raised,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cIt was led by women who, many times, were told \u2018no\u2019 or not to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Lopez is still fairly green to San Francisco, however. A Los Angeles native, she was raised by her mother who immigrated from Mexico. She grew up in \u201cWest Side\u201d schools, surrounded by affluence, because that is where her mother cleaned houses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">She was usually the translator for her mother at school conferences and saw the shortcomings of education for children who were treated differently because of their backgrounds. This is what inspired her to teach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of respect in education and we know it\u2019s clear you\u2019re not going to get paid a lot,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cSo many people were trying to persuade me to do something else but I felt like this was the space I needed to be in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">She began teaching at a charter school in Los Angeles as a fifth grade Spanish immersion teacher during an era where teachers were losing their jobs and no contracts were being granted to teachers to across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">In 2016, she came to San Francisco to begin teaching as a bilingual teacher for fourth graders in the Mission District. Lopez \u201cloops\u201d with her students, meaning she stays with them as their teacher through their fifth grade year as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">In addition to teaching, Lopez drives Lyft with her GMC pick-up truck to supplement her salary. If she takes the school board position, Lopez will have to leave her job that already leaves her living on a budget. The elected school board position pays a $500 stipend each month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cThat is no way of surviving in this city,\u201d she said of the stipend. \u201cIf money is a struggle, pursuing something like this is not an option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Orientation for the school board has been postponed until after the new year and Lopez has been told that, as of now, she will have to leave the district in order to serve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cA lot of people kind of ignore the school board but they have a lot of power and a lot of control,\u201d she said. \u201cIf communities know that and enough of us can be out and represent that then that is what we should be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After running a grassroots, female-led campaign for one of three open seats, Gabriela Lopez became the first bilingual Spanish speaker and youngest woman ever elected to the San Francisco school board last month. 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