The statements led to Alison Collins being stripped of her title as vice president of the Board on March 25,2021.
19 Facts About Alison Collins
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Alison Collins attracted attention for her role in other controversial decisions made by the board, including the attempted destruction of the Life of Washington mural, the attempted renaming of 44 schools, and the refusal to hire a consultant to reopen the schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Alison Collins has stated that her parents attended public schools and she is a mixed race person.
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Alison Collins was an educator for 20 years prior to 2018 and ran the "San Francisco Public School Mom" blog.
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Alison Collins is a critic of charter schools and claims merit-based systems are racist; although Collins's own children attend Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, the only remaining merit-based high school in San Francisco.
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In 2016, Alison Collins complained about incidents of bullying and racism at Francisco Middle School, where Alison Collins' daughter once attended.
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Alison Collins was elected to the board of education in 2018, among a pool of 19 candidates.
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In 2019, Alison Collins voted with the rest of the board to destroy the Life of Washington mural by Viktor Arnautoff in George Washington High School, which had been contentious due to its depiction of slavery and Native Americans.
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In 2020, the district attempted to hire a reopening consultant but was blocked by the board, with Alison Collins comparing the consulting firm to a "crime syndicate" due to its association with charter schools.
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Alison Collins stated that hiring the consultant would amount to "perpetuating white supremacy".
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Alison Collins was "adamant" that he should not be appointed, although 5 of the 15 positions were vacant at the time, to which no one else had applied.
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Alison Collins spoke up when none of the other staff did.
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On March 19,2021, members of the recall effort against Alison Collins resurfaced the tweets amidst a surge in violent crimes against Asians.
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At the regular Board meeting on March 23,2021, Alison Collins apologized for the tweets but did not mention the Asian American community in the apology.
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Alison Collins refused to resign, maintained that the tweets were taken out of context, and did not delete the tweets.
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In November 2021, Alison Collins expressed regret that her words caused hurt to the Asian American community.
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Alison Collins maintained that her tweets were not racist and that her words were weaponized by opponents with ulterior motives.
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On March 31,2021, Alison Collins filed an $87-million lawsuit against the San Francisco Unified School District and the 5 board members who had voted for the motion of no-confidence due to her tweets against Asian Americans.
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Collins is married to real estate developer Chris Collins, a principal at Urban Pacific Development, LLC Alison Collins owns a consulting company, Falcon Pacific LLC, which receives income from Urban Pacific.