California To Buy and Distribute Censored Textbooks

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textbook from classrooms because some supplemental materials accompanying it — although not the textbook itself — referenced Harvey Milk, an influential gay rights activist and U.S.

Naval veteran, who in 1977 became one of the first openly gay candidates elected to public office. During the school board’s debate, its president, Joseph Komrosky, questioned why Milk should be included in historical or social studies classes, calling the prominent gay rights campaigner a “pedophile.”In addition to attracting negative attention for the school district, the comments also caught the attention of Newsom, who announced his proposed purchase of the censored textbooks last Thursday, according to the San Francisco-based news website SFGATE.“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 in a statement.“If the school board won’t do its job by its next board meeting to ensure kids start the school year with basic materials, the state will deliver the book into the hands of children and their parents — and we’ll send the district the bill and fine them for violating state law.”The Democratic governor added that he was working with state lawmakers to develop a mechanism to fine any districts that fail to “provide adequate instructional materials” to students.Newsom — as well as California Attorney General Rob Bonta — said that by banning the book and rejecting the proposed social studies curriculum, the board is violating the FAIR Act.The FAIR Act requires the inclusion of the historical contributions of various racial, ethnic, religious,.