School Board Politics Heat up in California

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Republicans may lack political power in Sacramento, but in recent years, they’ve made inroads on local school boards. Now, some of those conservative officials are facing recall elections. Temecula voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether or not to recall school board president Joseph Komrosky, who worked to ban critical race theory (which is not taught in the district) and require parental notification if students identify as transgender. A recall of conservative school trustees is also in the works in the Bay Area community of Sunol. We’ll look at what’s behind the recalls and what they say about the volatile politics of public education in the state. Guests: Madison Aument, reporter, KVCR Erin Allday, reporter, San Francisco Chronicle Jonathan Collins, assistant professor of political science and education, Teachers College, Columbia University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.6	Republicans may lack political power in Sacramento, but in recent years, conservatives have made
1:26.5	inroads on local school boards, often
1:29.0	running on culture war issues like gender and critical race theory. Now, some of those officials
1:34.5	are facing recall elections. In March, three school board members were removed in Orange and
1:39.9	Yolo counties. Now, there's a recall election today in Riverside County and another next month in the
1:46.3	Bay Area. Coming up next on Forum, we'll look at what's behind the recalls and what they say about
1:51.6	the volatile politics of public education in our state and our country. That's next after this news.
2:02.1	This is Forum. I'm Guy Marzarati and from Mina Kim.
2:05.6	Voting is underway in two special elections in California, recalls against school board members
2:11.3	in the Riverside County City of Temecula and in the Bay Area community of Sinal.
2:16.5	The elections mark a pushback to conservative
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