I’m Tim Tung — an SFUSD parent, a public finance professional, and a lifelong believer in public education.

My two young children attend the Chinese Immersion School at De Avila, where I chair our School Site Council and serve as our cohort’s representative to SFUSD’s LCAP Advisory Committee. I’ve spent countless hours digging into student performance data, advocating for our classrooms, and working alongside the families and educators who make our school community strong. I know what our schools can be because I see it every day.

I also know what it takes to fix an organization’s finances, because I’ve spent 20 years doing exactly that. I began my career in the City of San Jose’s Finance Department, helping steer a major city government through the 2008 financial crisis. I then spent 12 years at S&P Global Ratings evaluating the budgets, forecasts, and leadership of hundreds of local governments (including school districts!) across the country and holding executives publicly accountable when they failed to deliver. Most recently, I served on the municipal team of a global investment firm.

Today I volunteer as Chairman of San Francisco’s Citizens’ General Obligation Bond Oversight Committee, serving as a watchdog over how the City spends taxpayer-approved bond dollars. I’m also Vice Chair of the California Society of Municipal Analysts and a board member of Asian Americans in Public Finance.

I am a proud graduate of public schools from kindergarten through graduate school, with degrees in public administration from San Jose State University and information and data science from UC Berkeley. I came to San Francisco 15 years ago for a job and stayed for everything else. I got married here. Both of my children were born here. I love this city’s diversity, its energy, and its neighborhoods.

What I can’t accept is that so many families feel they have to leave San Francisco to get a quality education for their kids. SFUSD is at a critical juncture on its budget, its enrollment system, and its student outcomes. The Board needs members with the financial and analytical skills to make tough decisions thoughtfully instead of kicking the can down the road. That’s why I’m running.