Seven hours into a public meeting held Tuesday on Zoom, the Board of Education of the San Francisco Unified School District voted 6-0 to rescind its controversial Jan. 26 resolution to rename 44 district schools. The vote also effectively disbanded the School Names Committee, an advisory panel that recommended the specific schools to be renamed.

The vote puts to rest for the time being an acrimonious fight over the board’s decision to rename schools that bear the name of individuals the board found to be slaveowners, subjugators of indigenous people, or responsible for racist, sexist or other offensive conduct.

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Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.