San Francisco school board member Sandra Lee Fewer, who is running for city supervisor, individually solicited campaign contributions from school district administrators and teachers.

Fewer, one of 10 candidates on the ballot in District One (Richmond District), acknowledged this week she asked at least two school district employees to attend an April fundraising dinner, but said she couldn’t recall if there were others.

Two other school workers, including interim Superintendent Myong Leigh, told The Chronicle that Fewer asked them to participate in the event, which required a minimum $100 donation. Leigh donated $200 to Fewer’s campaign that day, after previously giving $100. All told, school district employees donated nearly $4,000 to Fewer’s campaign at the April dinner.

Fewer said in phone and email interviews that she doesn’t believe she did anything wrong. She noted that school district workers routinely donate to local candidates.

“Our campaign has practiced due diligence in following campaign finance laws and will continue to abide by the laws set by the San Francisco Ethics Commission,” she said in an email Friday.

Fewer, though, did not address her personal solicitation of contributions. City law prohibits city officers or employees from directly seeking donations from other city workers. Fewer, however, cited an opinion from the Ethics Commission’s enforcement division that school district officers were not covered by that law.

A city worker or supervisor cannot call or text someone, or walk into their office, and invite them to a campaign fundraising event, said Peter Keane, a member of the Ethics Commission.

The law is designed to discourage putting “pressure on someone who is an employee of the city to give money to a political candidate or a political race because of their particular positions,” Keane said.

The letter cited by Fewer, written by enforcement deputy director Jessica Blome, said the law does not apply to school district officers because they are not directly under the city and county government. Keane, however, said he believed the law did apply to the school district.

In Leigh’s case, Fewer sought his contribution within a month of voting on his contract as deputy superintendent. The school board later appointed Leigh as superintendent in August after the departure of Richard Carranza. Leigh said he has supported Fewer in the past, and did not feel pressured to donate.

However, one district employee who recalled being contacted by Fewer described feeling pressured to attend the fundraiser because the request came from a board member with oversight of budgets, contracts, policies and programs. The person declined to be identified out of concern for potential repercussions.

Fewer said she attended ethics training for candidates in the city in February, and was “aware vaguely” of the rules meant to prevent the inappropriate use of authority.

Fewer said the two district workers she recalled asking to donate to her campaign were people she knows well.

“I might have asked friends I’ve known for a very long time,” she said. “I think that what happened is they asked, ‘How can I help you?’ And I called and said, ‘Would you like to come for a dinner?’”

More than 20 school district central office administrators, principals and teachers attended Fewer’s April 21 dinner. Most donated $100, and a few donated more.

While at least four employees heard about the event from Fewer directly, a few others said they heard about it from a friend or third party. Still others said they couldn’t remember how they found out about it.

Fewer said she also sent an invitation for the event to 10,000 people through a mass email. All told, she said, 100 people attended the fundraiser.

The majority of district workers who donated to her campaign on the day of the event did not respond to emails asking if Fewer had personally invited them.

School board President Matt Haney, who is running for re-election, said he has never solicited donations from district employees. While some workers have received his campaign letters sent in mass email blasts, he said he routinely deletes district email addresses that might be part of wider contact lists.

“That’s not what SFUSD employees should be receiving in their in-box,” he said.

Board members Rachel Norton and Jill Wynns, who are running for re-election, said they don’t ask district employees for campaign donations.

“We do vote on their contracts, and we need to avoid the reality or the suggestion of a conflict of interest when it comes to political fundraising,” Norton said.

Jill Tucker is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jtucker@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @jilltucker