District staffers have previously noted that the textbooks themselves do not actually refer to Harvey Milk, but he is mentioned in supporting materials available to students in upper grades.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is intervening in a controversy over textbooks with an LGBTQ reference in Temecula, saying the state will buy the books and fine the school district.Gov. Gavin Newsom is intervening in a controversy over textbooks with an LGBTQ+ reference in Temecula's school district, saying the state will buy the books itself and fine the district for violating state law.
Milk was the first openly gay man elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was assassinated in 1978. "Cancel culture has gone too far in Temecula: radicalized zealots on the school board rejected a textbook used by hundreds of thousands of students and now children will begin the school year without the tools they need to learn," Newsom said.
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