Proposed legislation would make it more difficult to initiate recall drives, attack misinformation
Following a year of recall fever that thrust California into the national spotlight with attempts to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom and other elected leaders, a similar trend is sweeping school boards across the state.
In Silicon Valley, parents at Cupertino Union School District — which spans parts of Cupertino, Los Altos, San Jose, Santa Clara, Saratoga and Sunnyvale — had been collecting signatures since last fall to recall board members Lori Cunningham, Sylvia Leong and Phyllis Vogel. Cunningham was the target of a previous recall attempt that never made it to the ballot in 2021.
“In 2021, there was this explosion of recalls almost all related to COVID masking policies and other policies,” he said. “But what was interesting was, not only very few got to the ballot, almost none succeeded.” Among the pandemic-related recall attempts that fizzled in the Bay Area last year was one launched by parents at
“I think that whole process, both of the recalls frankly, have really been about if you don’t agree with someone they’re not just wrong, they’re evil,” Cunningham said. “I really feel like it’s been frustrating to be cast in a light that implies that I don’t care about kids or I have ulterior motives when it couldn’t be further from the truth.”
The board members came under attack in early 2021 when, instead of dealing with students’ struggles in distance learning, they focused on a proposal to rename some of the district’s schools named after historical figures such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to be more inclusive.
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