
California School Board Defies State, Keeps Parent Notification Policy for Trans Students
A Southern California school district is defying a state order to reverse a controversial policy requiring parents to be notified if their child wishes to identify as transgender. After the California Department of Education ordered the Murrieta Valley Unified School Board to rescind the policy on April 10, district officials announced that they would no longer enforce the policy, in a letter to the school community on April 12. But on April 19, the district’s education board voted 3–2 to keep the policy in place. “We have a right as a board to defy a dictatorial governor and bureaucracy … that tries to take away our rights as parents and as citizens—as a duly elected board,” trustee Nick Pardue said at the meeting Friday. “We have legal standing, and we should absolutely stand up for our rights against dictators.”...
