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Bongolian Jul 2, 2024

Erin Allday: After a yearlong Pride flag fallout, Bay Area school board members face a recall vote

"A nearly yearlong battle for control of a tiny East Bay school board, triggered in September by an implied ban on Pride flags, reaches its political conclusion on Tuesday as two of the three board members face a recall that’s split the sleepy town of #Sunol.

Ryan Jergensen and Linda Hurley are both up for recall as trustees in the Sunol Glen Unified School District, which serves about 270 students in a single K-8 school.

If they’re recalled, they’ll join an unenviable list of conservative school board trustees across #California who have been removed this year after instituting policies perceived as anti-LGBTQ. Already, trustees in Orange, Riverside and Yolo counties have been recalled, including most recently the board president in Temecula."

#SchoolBoard #homophobia #LGBTQ #recallelection
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/sunol-glen-recall-19539935.php

oops!all_manzanitas May 3, 2024

Blazing Stars in Niles Canyon!

#CaliforniaNativePlants #plantsoftheBayArea #plantsofAlamedaCounty #Fremont #NilesCanyon #Sunol #Mentzelia #blazingstars #bloomscrolling #Mosstodon #wildlifephotography #botany #nativeplants

Tracy Rosenberg Sep 21, 2023

Problems continue at #Sunol School Board which banned the flying of the #Pride flag last wek. ALCO sheriff deputies broke up fights at the meeting as rumors flew that the Board is trying to fire the superintendent who opposed the ban and the one dissenting board member is kept out of the board meeting.. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/09/20/sunol-school-board-chair-goes-on-the-offensive-in-tense-first-meeting-since-pride-flag-ban/?

Sunol school board chair goes on the offensive in tense first meeting since Pride flag ban

Audience walks out in protest after Ryan Jergensen, who voted for the ban last week, defends himself.

East Bay Times

Tracy Rosenberg Sep 15, 2023

School Board culture war turmoil hits the Bay Area in the little Pleasanton exurb of #Sunol. "In the hours leading up to the meeting, parents like Souza, the Fremont filmmaker, warned that the flag resolution was likely to turn a small elementary school into a political battlefield between #parents". https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/09/12/sunol-school-board-meeting-devolves-into-chaos-audience-thrown-out-as-pride-flag-banned/

Sunol school board meeting devolves into chaos, audience thrown out as Pride flag banned

The board meeting, which packed over 100 people from both sides of the issue into a small cafeteria covered in student posters and walk-a-thon posters, frequently turned into a volley of shouts and…

The Mercury News