![]() ![]() The majority also enacted a policy requiring parents to be told if their child identifies as transgender. Since then, the board has made national headlines not only with the critical race theory ban, but its initial refusal to adopt a social studies curriculum with supplemental material that mentioned LGBTQ civil rights icon Harvey Milk. With the help of a local Christian conservative political action committee, Gonzalez, Komrosky and Wiersma were elected one year ago on a platform of promoting parents’ rights and ridding the district of what they said was inappropriate sexual material and political indoctrination. “And so all of us are consulting attorneys more often than we ever would have.” ![]() “But in the climate that we’re in now where our new board members are trying to push the envelope on every issue, it does get sticky,” Barclay said. The board rarely consulted attorneys before Gonzalez, Komrosky and Wiersma, took office, said Barclay, who has been on the board since 2021. In a telephone interview, she lamented how much money the district is spending on lawyers. Gonzalez and Komrosky did not respond to requests for comment.īoard member Allison Barclay, who with board colleague Steven Schwartz is frequently at odds with the conservative majority, described the district’s legal costs as “insane” during a recent board meeting.
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