California County Superintendent Warns School Board May Face Legal Trouble Over 'antisemitic Tropes'

A California region superintendent suggested that Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) schoolhouse committee members should bring ineligible practice to meetings, return morals classes and prosecute successful conflict solution training aft video emerged of members engaging successful "antisemitic tropes" astatine a caller contentious meeting.

"In caller months, my agency has received a number of questions and concerns regarding behaviour and rhetoric astatine PVUSD Board meetings. My ain observations person confirmed nan validity of respective of these concerns," Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Farris Sabbah wrote successful an April 23 letter addressed to PVUSD Board President Olivia Flores and different members.

"In particular, I was profoundly concerned by comments made by trustees astatine nan April 16, 2025, Board gathering that appeared to invoke antisemitic tropes," he said successful nan missive obtained by nan North American Values Institute and shared pinch Fox News Digital. 

The PVUSD School Board held nan gathering successful mobility to talk renewing a statement for nan taste studies program pinch Culturally Responsive Education (CRE). Jewish organization members person expressed interest astir nan CRE program owed to nan organization’s founder, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, having authored a draught taste studies program that was rejected by nan California schoolhouse committee owed to concerns complete antisemitism. 

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PVUSD School Board personnel Gabe Medina, pictured connected nan acold right, appeared to impeach Jewish constituents of only attending meetings erstwhile it benefits them.  (PVUSD)

Despite nan authorities rejecting Tintiangco-Cubales’ preferred program for taste studies, nan PVUSD Board still intends to statement pinch CRE to draught their taste studies' curriculum. 

After Jewish organization members raised their objections to nan CRE curriculum, aggregate committee members engaged successful rhetoric that employed what Sabbah’s missive described arsenic "antisemitic tropes."

During nan April 16 meeting, committee personnel Joy Flynn utilized her clip to talk Jewish "economic power."

"It has been thing that I’ve discovered, aliases that I’ve been a small taken aback by is nan deficiency of acknowledgment of economical powerfulness historically held by nan Jewish community, that Black and Brown group don’t have," Flynn said.

Board personnel Gabriel Medina seemed to reside nan Jewish organization erstwhile he said, "I don’t spot you group astatine protests for immigration. I don’t spot you astatine protestation wherever group are being taken distant correct now. I don’t spot you advocating to bring backmost Abrego Garcia aliases Mahmoud Khalil. You only show up to meetings erstwhile it’s beneficial for you truthful you tin show Brown group who they are, but conjecture what, we’re telling our ain stories now."

Sabbah’s missive suggested that nan committee whitethorn beryllium successful usurpation of nan California transparency law, nan Ralph M. Brown Act, by "taking, aliases attempting to take, action connected matters not decently listed" and recommended nan committee person ineligible counsel coming astatine early meetings. He besides recommended nan committee return classes successful "governance, morals and acquisition law" arsenic good arsenic conflict solution pursuing nan combative meeting. 

"Antisemitic rhetoric has nary spot successful PVUSD, slightest of each from trustees charged pinch upholding students’ rights, ensuring nondiscrimination, and fostering safe, inclusive acquisition environments," Sabbah wrote. 

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Board Trustee Joy Flynn delivered a reside connected Jewish "economic power." (PVUSD)

When asked for comment, Medina referred Fox News Digital to a Substack post successful which he replied to Sabbah’s letter. 

"Framing committee personnel comments arsenic invoking ‘anti-Semitic tropes’ without straight naming aliases analyzing those comments reduces a analyzable and achy statement to vague accusations. This maneuver chills speech, particularly erstwhile utilized against trustees of colour challenging systems of power. As Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes, ‘The problem pinch liberalism is that it often demands civility from nan oppressed while allowing powerfulness to stay unchallenged.’ We must ask: whose discomfort is being centered erstwhile our committee addresses group inequity?" Medina wrote successful nan April 23 post. He wrote that nan comments astatine nan schoolhouse committee gathering were directed astatine a "group of individuals – galore of whom person aligned pinch far-right groups."

PVUSD superintendent Dr. Heather Contreras told Fox News Digital that ineligible practice will beryllium coming astatine nan adjacent schoolhouse committee meeting, and a determination will beryllium made astir whether ineligible counsel will beryllium coming astatine early meetings. She said her territory stands firmly against antisemitism.

"PVUSD stands firmly against each forms of racism, antisemitism, and hate. We are alert of concerns raised regarding caller remarks attributed to immoderate members of nan Board of Trustees, and we want to beryllium clear astir nan values that guideline our district. PVUSD is committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and respectful situation for each students, families, educators, and organization members—regardless of background, race, religion, aliases identity.  We stay focused connected upholding nan principles of equity, dignity, and communal respect successful everything we do. PVUSD will proceed to activity pinch our divers communities to guarantee our schools bespeak nan values we expect from our leaders and instill successful our students," Contreras told Fox News Digital. 

Board president Flores and trustee Flynn referred Fox News Digital to Dr. Contreras' connection erstwhile asked for comment. 

Antisemitic dislike connected show astatine an anti-Israel protestation successful London.  (Campaign Against Antisemitism connected X)

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"Our attraction is connected supporting nan Board and District straight arsenic we activity together to service students and families of each identities. We person nary further comments astatine this time," Sabbah told Fox News Digital. 

CRE's Tintiangco-Cubales did not return a petition for comment.