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Championing Academic Excellence, Transparency, and Parental Voice in Public Education

Challenging SFUSD’s
Ethnic Studies Mandate

The Friends of Lowell Foundation is taking legal action against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and the Board of Education over the rushed adoption and implementation of the "Voices" Liberated Ethnic Studies curriculum. Legal violations include sham evaluations and bypassing the CA Brown Act open-meeting requirements. What began as a limited "pilot" program, has since been expanded into a mandatory two-semester requirement for all incoming 9th-grade students. First, a formal Demand Letter was sent to SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su and the Board of Education, followed by a request for intervention and a meeting with San Francisco City Hall officials - citing the misappropriation of Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEEF) to support the unvetted program.

Merit-Based Admissions Matter

The Friends of Lowell Foundation promotes educational opportunity and high standards in public instruction by protecting Lowell High School in San Francisco and advocating for merit-based admissions in public magnet high schools across the U.S., K-8 improvements, STEM instruction, and Advanced Placement funding.

Lowell High School was established in 1856 and is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi. Lowell has cultivated an extraordinary, generations-spanning legacy of academic excellence, consistently ranking among the nation's premier institutions while producing a distinguished roster of trailblazing alumni that includes Nobel laureates, scientists, artists, and a Supreme Court Justice.

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Statements

The Friends of Lowell Foundation has led the effort on the West Coast to preserve meritocracy at San Francisco's Lowell High School - a prestigious public alternative magnet school based on the southwestern side of the city.

Read our statement on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University & University of North Carolina cases.

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Make a tax-deductible donation today and help us win our legal battle against the rushed adoption of the "Voices" Liberal Ethnic Studies mandate for all SFUSD 9th graders. We have a successful track record of bringing SFUSD back into legal compliance over illegal proceedings and CA Brown Act violations via San Francisco Superior Court.