{"id":468915,"date":"2026-09-19T09:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468915\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:16:14","slug":"mayor-luries-office-apologizes-for-appointing-private-school-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468915\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Lurie’s office apologizes for appointing private-school kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Daniel Lurie\u2019s office has apologized after a Mission Local story<\/a> revealed that the mayor had only appointed private school students to the city\u2019s youth commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n

About 70 percent of San Francisco students go to public schools, including over 2,000<\/a> who are homeless. Mayor Daniel Lurie gets to appoint six young people to the San Francisco Youth Commission, a 17-member body. All six mayoral appointees this year attend private schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an oversight, and it should not take away from the engaged, committed students who were appointed,\u201d read a statement from the mayor\u2019s office.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AComment in a school district Facebook group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mayor\u2019s Office is responsible for roughly 500 commissioners citywide and appoints about 100 each year,\u201d the email continued. The mayoral appointees to the Youth Commission represented \u201ca range of demographics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing forward, we will be more intentional about ensuring SFUSD representation across our commissions, reflecting our deep commitment to our partnership with the SFUSD community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The story drew attention and criticism about the mayor being \u201cout of touch<\/a>\u201d after it was published on Wednesday. Parents were \u201cvery upset,\u201d \u201cangered\u201d and felt \u201cit brought up the larger issue of how close San Francisco leaders are to the public schools,\u201d said Rebecca Kee, the executive director of the San Francisco Parent Coalition, a parent-led advocacy group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Records obtained by Mission Local going back to 2016-17 revealed<\/a> that no mayor in that time appointed only private school students to the Youth Commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kee brought the concerns to Kunal Modi, the mayor\u2019s policy chief overseeing education, on Thursday morning to share the \u201cdeep disappointment in this failed process.\u201d She heard back quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey apologized, and they\u2019ve committed that this won\u2019t happen again,\u201d she wrote in a Thursday afternoon Facebook post<\/a> to her group. The mayor\u2019s office is also \u201coffering time to connect with parents\u201d and hear their concerns, according to the post.<\/p>\n

One of the popular questions in the group\u2019s Facebook community was, \u201cWhat would it take for the mayor to enroll his own children in the public schools?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a question that gets to the heart of the issue, said Kee, because \u201cif there are specific concerns that the mayor and his team, on a personal level, see in the public schools, how can they identify and champion those causes?\u201d<\/p>\n

Another parent asked, \u201cShould there be an immediate addition of a number of seats on the commission dedicated to public school students who were already in the pool?\u201d Kee said. The parent wondered if a resolution could be passed \u201cto ensure that public school kids are never forgotten in the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Public school teachers, meanwhile, said they were \u201cnot surprised\u201d when they learned about the incident, according to Frank Lara, vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, the union for some 6,000 public school educators.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt matches his vibe when he only chooses students from private schools,\u201d said Lara. He said, for instance, that the teachers union had not heard from Lurie since the four-day teachers strike<\/a> in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a big disconnect between [Lurie] and the people of San Francisco,\u201d Lara said \u2014 though polls show Lurie is very popular<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Daniel Lurie\u2019s office has apologized after a Mission Local story revealed that the mayor had only appointed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[636,101,103,102,104,106,105,15254,7164],"class_list":["post-468915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-daniel-lurie","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sfusd","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}