Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta will review a Southern California school board’s decision to reject social studies curriculum over its mention of gay rights hero Harvey Milk, he told the Southern California school district in a letter Wednesday.
The blue state’s top cop pressed the Temecula Valley Unified School District for documents justifying its decision to block textbooks for first through fifth graders, and asked for information on its curriculum adoption policies. Bonta’s office said it was “particularly concerned” by comments made by two members of the board’s conservative majority, who repeated an age-old allegation leveraged by conservatives that Milk was a “pedophile” — without substantiating their claim.
