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A few called for her resignation in 2016 after she used the term “ghetto school” during a meeting where School Board members discussed plans to make Cedar Park Elementary School an option school to avoid racial imbalance at surrounding schools; the neighborhood nearby is a low-income, racially diverse pocket of North Seattle. She apologized for the comment.

‘I absolutely blew it,’ Harris said last week. ‘I’ve chewed on it and it’s made me a hell of a lot more sensitive and I think probably more effective.’

Former School Board member Stephan Blanford, the only black member of the board at the time, called the moment ‘sickening’ and ‘disrespectful of her own (diverse) constituency.’”