A conservative parent group is hoping to gain a lock on the Placentia-Yorba Linda school board by ousting two longtime incumbents.
that's been recently amplified by some Republican leaders and candidates across the country, including Frazier.
Blades told LAist that even though critical race theory wasn't being taught in the district, it was present in supplemental curriculum used by teachers."So now the supplemental curriculum that comes in has to align with district standards for curriculum," she said. Deborah Wilson-Ozima said a parent complained to the principal at the school where she was substitute teaching in November 2020 after overhearing Wilson-Ozima read from a
Phillips worries that the district's school libraries could become a target, as they have in other parts of the country."I feel like I have butterflies in my stomach all the time," she said. The literature organization PEN America has counted more than 2,500 instances ofin U.S. schools since July 2021, many of them with LGBTQ themes or protagonists, and prominent characters of color.