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John Jersin
John Jersin ran for election to the San Francisco Unified Board of Education in California. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Jersin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
As of October 2024, Jersin was the co-founder of an education nonprofit, the Jersin Foundation.[1]
Biography
John Jersin graduated from the University of California San Diego and Stanford University.[2]
Elections
2024
See also: San Francisco Unified School District, California, elections (2024)
General election
General election for San Francisco Unified Board of Education (4 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for San Francisco Unified Board of Education on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jaime Huling (Nonpartisan) | 16.7 | 168,659 |
| ✔ |  | Parag Gupta (Nonpartisan) | 13.8 | 139,340 |
| ✔ |  | Supryia Marie Ray (Nonpartisan) | 12.6 | 127,834 |
| ✔ |  | Matt Alexander (Nonpartisan) | 12.1 | 122,698 |
 | John Jersin (Nonpartisan)  | 12.1 | 122,450 | |
| Virginia Cheung (Nonpartisan) | 10.0 | 101,017 | ||
| Ann Hsu (Nonpartisan) | 8.0 | 81,044 | ||
| Min Chang (Nonpartisan) | 4.8 | 48,550 | ||
 | Laurance Lem Lee (Nonpartisan) | 4.5 | 45,736 | |
| Maddy Krantz (Nonpartisan) | 3.3 | 33,165 | ||
 | Lefteris Eleftheriou (Nonpartisan) | 2.2 | 22,285 | |
| Total votes: 1,012,778 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Andrew C. Edwards (Nonpartisan)
- Deldelp Medina (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
Jersin received the following endorsements. To view a full list of Jersin's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here.
- Rep. Kevin Mullin (D)
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D)
- State Sen. Scott Wiener (D)
- Assemblymember Matt Haney (D)
- San Francisco Mayor London Breed (Nonpartisan)
- SFUSD Board President Matt Alexander (Nonpartisan)
- California Controller Malia Cohen (D)
- San Francisco Democratic Party
- Grow SF
- San Francisco Labor Council
- Together SF
- United Educators of San Francisco
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
John Jersin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Jersin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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In third grade, my public school teacher taught me how to code. As a kid who was good at math, I loved it. By middle school I was staying up late writing computer games and sharing them with friends, and then selling them to friends. I realized I started a company, and I stuck with that too. After college I started another company in the storage closet of my friend's office. We wrote algorithms that matched people to jobs, and it worked well. Eventually, LinkedIn bought the company and asked me to run their core business unit. I had this wild experience, suddenly finding myself as a leader of a multi-billion dollar organization with thousands of people.
Then I had kids, and they changed everything for me. In 2019 I started an education foundation. Now, as a parent of two young children, with an SFUSD teacher in the family, I see the crises our schools face - the financial crisis, the staffing crisis - and I want to use my experience to help every kid in our schools. As an appointee to SFUSD's CBOC I've already found millions of dollars in potential savings for our schools, and I'm ready to do more.- Balancing the budget
- Fixing the staffing crisis
- Restoring a focus on helping every student achieve their potential
United Educators of San Francisco
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi
Congressman Kevin Mullin
Mayor London Breed
Former Mayor Mark Farrell
Senator Scott Wiener
Assemblymember Matt Haney
District Supervisor Joe Engardio
District Supervisor Rafael Mandleman
District Supervisor Connie Chan
District Supervisor Catherine Stefani
District Supervisor Matt Dorsey
Former SF Democratic Party Chair Honey Mahogany
Board of Education President Matt Alexander
Board of Education Member Alida Fisher
Former SFUSD Superintendent Dr. Vincent Matthews
City College Board of Trustees President Alan Wong
TogetherSF
GrowSF
Alice B Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club
Asian Americans Rise
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Mission Local, "Meet the Candidates: San Francisco’s school board race," July 10, 2024
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 10, 2024
