from the school board.t, they are all haggling over all of that. my panel is here with me, also joining us is the writer -- treat to have you back. also, we've got that fifth grade teacher, who you spoken to two weeks ago. jenna barbee, hers showing the movie. she's on the phone with us straight from tonight's meeting, she's just gone out to talk to us. janet, great to talk to you. what's happening in this school board meeting? how heated isn't? >> it's pretty chaotic. you've got to school board members who are on one side with a small group called moms for liberty that is very anti everyone. you then have a large group of everyone else. and the other school board members fighting for equality among our students. >> one of the school board members, as we've discussed, her name is shannon rodriguez. she's the woman who complained when you showed that disney her. has her faith been decided yet? >> no. it's not really how this works. in order to do, that you would have to go through this voting process where y

>> um, no. >> reporter: for years, woodland park school board meetings were uneventful. now they look more like this. >> you're a bunch of thieves and cowards. and i can't wait to vote you off. >> reporter: ever since new school board members one seat's campaigning on conservative values and then made sweeping changes. >> they don't want to hear what you have to say. >> reporter: the board chose not to reapply for grants that pay for students mental health services. they hired a superintendent, kenneth witt, who wa previously recalled from his seat on a nearby cool boar after pushing a controversial history program. nbc news obtained this video from a staff meeting where witt defends his position on mental health. >> and delivering social services through schools seems to deter a lot of focus on education. >> reporter: the district also became the first in the country to implement a social studies program called american birthright, developed by conservative activists and rejected by educators around the country, including colorado's state board of education it emphasize

the school board president. why would this school take on curriculum so many educators say is dangerous? >> we're the first ones and the only ones at this point to do it. >> reporter: tell me, what's in the curriculum that made you want the bring it here? >> the vast majority of people who support that we hear from, that i hear from, they are -- for having put that in there. when i graduated, the vast majority of the graduates were proud to be americans. and we want to see that happen again, because we live in the freest, greatest country in the world. >> reporter: this november, three seats on the school board are up for election. parents like matt galowski worry about how much could change between now and then. >> wake up. don't -- don't rest. don't think that your district is safe. i never saw this coming. >> reporter: jacob always imagined himself graduating here, standing side by side with friends he's known all his life. but he doesn't want to wait and see what happens. >> i'm not going to be here. this sc

>> yes. >> you had attended a school board meeting and you were nervous, is that correct? >> yes, my colleagues teased me about it. >> those who attended no crime and attended a rally saw the fbi weaponized against him. george hill was an fbi employee in the boston field office and he talks about the pressure that the washington field office was putting on boston and when they tried to get predicate evidence, they couldn't get it for an interesting reason, this is george hill. >> they said, no, we are not opening up cases about a rally. and said, happy to do it, show us where they were inside the capitol and we'll look into it. to which he said we can't show you the videos unless you tell us the exact time and place the individuals were inside the capitol. to which the ssa responded because and i had the conversation first hand, why can't you just send us the 11,000 hours of video? because there may be, may be undercover officers or confidential sources on those videoings whose identity we need to protect. >> marcus allen, an fbi analyst who did work around evidence, shari

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who are sent to i boarding schools, and in these boarding schools, and in these boarding schools, andtion as mandarin, you are taught chinese history the chinese version of history they are taught a version of communist china, then you are taught how to maintain your allegiance to the communist party all that and tibetan language is only four classes a week as they claim.— language is only four classes a week as they claim. china says, that actually — week as they claim. china says, that actually what _ week as they claim. china says, that actually what has _ week as they claim. china says, | that actually what has happened in the region is that you have double digit economic growth there over quarter of a century, that poverty has reduced by 80%, that people live longer, it was 35 in the 19505 live longer, it was 35 in the 1950s and now people live until they are 70. and they cite these things as reasons china has benefited tibet? tt these things as reasons china has benefited tibet?- has benefited tibet? if tibet had been — has benefited tibet? if tibet had been left _ has benefited

it takes away right of parents by nullifying their vote for the school board in their town.ow the school board can't do anything without the state of nevada coming down hard on them, basically that is it, right? >> we think parents should have control over policies in the district where their children attend. policies are tethered to the stake holders where children attend schools. we are holding your child hostage and your school board hostage to policy that is not right for families in the district. we see this over and over with these policies as they come at this from a one size fits all standpoint and that is not how it works. we want our families to be engaged and original text of this bill was helping families be engaged in school board meetings. they utilized a bill parents were excited about to slip something like this in is underhanded andic taking power away from parents. >> todd: there is safety of children on the whole. when democrats are press on, they share the same defense. here is what one democrat used as her defense. listen. >> this intended to protect all

attend your school board meeting. get involved. we have seen that again and again, when the resistance against educational censorship and book bands schools or libraries, when it comes together they are able to stop that vocal minority against it. >> it is also, asking candidates. library boards aren't elected in california, they are appointed by county supervisors or city council. need to ask those people, how -- don't -- not just do you love the library, but how do you feel about censorship and intellectual read him? that is what we need to be asking, not softball questions. nobody will say they hate apple pie. this is america. everybody loves libraries. but how do they feel about the core issue, which is library funding and intellectual freedom. >> next question. >> thank you for being here. i'm really great. i just got back from a month in florida where i was working with youth on banned books and censorship and trying to get access to the curriculum in higher ed and at elementary schools. there is so much fear out there. it is

my name is mike hutchinson, i'm the school board director in district 4 and currently the school boardnt. this is a very disappointing day and it's not a position that i ever thought i would find myself in. for me, personally, i'm an oae baby. my mother was the first vice president of oea. i've had other members as members of the oea. this is what my family has done for decades. i was proudly elected in 2020 with unanimous endorsement from oea. we now serve on a school board where five of the six school board directors were endorsed and heavily supported by oea. >> we've been negotiating for months and for over a week, we've been negotiating every day. we want to continue negotiating. we don't want a strike, but they've left the table and broken off discussions, not us. it's very disappointing to me when it felt like we were really having movement towards an agreement that this is where we find ourselves now. like the superintendent mentioned yesterday there was direct negotiations between ousd leadership and oea leadership, and both county superintendent castro and state superintenden

have you ever been to a school board meeting?> yes i have. >> has the fbi sent you to the parking lot of a school board meeting? >> yes i have. >> you are taking down information like peoples's license plates? >> yes. i went on my own as a private citizen, as a parent. >> it must have been interesting, there you were taking down the information of parents attending school board meetings on behalf of the fbi. how did that feel? >> after i attended privately, my colleagues teased me that they would start investigating me. >> you used to go out after the worst of the worst? >> yes. >> child born, sexually exploiting children. then you are in the parking lot of a school board meeting, taking down the information of parents. what happened to the cases you were working to protect our communities from the worst predators that exist? >> i was told they were not to be resource. after i was suspended, they were handed off to local law-enforcement. >> the fbi decided it was more important to have you in that parking lot at that school board

it started with this statement on thursday by school board president mike hutchinson stating that the teachers union abruptly stopped negotiating, even though they were so close to finalizing a salary agreement. >> we want to continue negotiating. we don't want a strike troc but they've left the table and they've broken off discussions. not us. >> and today a small group of teachers showed up at his house as hutchinson was in pajamas and drinking his morning coffee. ofa member of the teachers union bargaining team was on the phone assuring hutchinson that they were at the table ready to negotiate. >> vilma has our bargaining team been holding up negotiations happened, and there's witnesses to this happening. >> and we have timestamp proposals. >> so how can both sides say they are at the table when they are clearly not meeting? hutchinson claims ousd officials were at some point negotiating directly with the interim president and vice president of the union when a salary proposal was given to both of them. and instead of consulting with their own bargaining team, they walked away and

signal to district across the country, to do the right thing for learners, i think over and over, school boardsst their bearings and hair started listening to really loud voices. instead of putting learners first. so, what we're really looking forward, a change of conduct, by these boards another boards across the country, so that young people can read the books that matter to them. have the difficult conversations they're ready for. and make a better world. and create spaces for everyone to matter and belong. and i think that, as far as the rule of penguin random house, having a strong message from the industry that says, we're not going to let these conversations in these works of literature be silenced, is really powerful in pushing back on the chilling effect that has had in publishing. where editors and publishers are weary of books that deal with difficult topics. >> i think this alliance of people who are involved in this lawsuit makes this very interesting. not just penguin random house, but washington post columnist greg sergeant published an op-ed, title desantis's book burners face a

>> i can't discount the state school board meeting on unconscionable appeal everyone on the 19 member board when of the largest in the nation for critical race theory. i have been receiving letters from parents all over the state of ohio there is concerned with their children are being taught some of the local boards are engaging in some are not so parents hold us accountable. and then to set up that curriculum on the website so for example on the website the perception is that we supported we were clueless. so that began as policymakers as the school board to find out why. but it's because there is consequences and the foundational support for education. i find a lot of them are clueless until it is too late. >> and with a 1618 project of critical race theory et cetera so what is needed so what more do we need? >> orgy push back against the instructive narratives that we really do need to be offering the ways and often times those that are advancing the narratives that are causing trouble and division often like to portray the debate as we are here to give you an honest view of histo

and we need to do something about president of the oakland school board mike hutchinson says the oakland unified school district win over oakland, education association's counter proposal sunday night until one. 30 am monday morning. >> the district has offered to give salary raises of up to 22% for teachers. but hutchinson says most of the common good goals are off the table items that are outside of the scope of the contract, which are basically compensation and work conditions are not going to be negotiated. that's been our standing authorization since last fall. 3 oakland school board directors spoke out monday in support of the teachers. we support oakland educators and their fight for the contract directors. jennifer bro, hard valerie bachelor and then cednic williams say that coming good request should not have to be negotiated separately. it will increase the nurses. >> at our school sites that are marginalized kids. it will increase our librarians right now. we have to librarians out of 85 >> according to hutchinson say superintendent tony thurmond was supportive of contract neg

the court found that the school board had acted many good faith in -- in good faith in planning for acourt has on three separate occasions issued recorders directing that the plan be carried out. although persons were instructed to refrain from interfering with the efforts of the school board to comply with the law. proper and sensible observance of the law 9/11 demanded -- then demanded respectful obedience which a nation has a right to the expect from from all its people. this, unfortunately, has not been the case at little rock. certain misguided persons, if many of them imported into little rock by agitators, have insisted on to -- upon defying the law and have sought to bring it into disrepute. the orders of the court have thus been frustrated. the very basis of our individual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the president and the executive branch of government will support and insure the carrying out of the decisions of the federal courts even when necessary with all the means thatth the president commands. unless the president did so, anarchy would result. ther

take a look at how can we, a lot of parents go to school board meetings, take a look at curriculum, if it is anti-american, challenge that. are you prioritizing u.s. citizenship or school district prioritizing citizenship? i've seen that. there are ways to do it, it is time for parents to step forward and make a difference in that way. >> todd: only about a fifth of students rank proficient in civics last year. got to raise the numbers. we talk about reading and math, but histories how we less lessons of the past, bad and good. president zelenskyy denies ukraine tried to asas nat putin in a drone trike on the kremlin. talking about what this means for america. >> ashley: at home, this is the u.s. military. >> i'm at the top of my game with the big dog. girls, come on. leave the world to the men? ♪ ♪ >> ashley: that the navy turning to drag queens to help with recruitment. meanwhile, servicemembers still can't reenlist after being forced out due to covid vaccine, joining us next. how do we decide what hotel to book? (yelping) fear not, i got you. choice hotels has a hotel for every type

and we need to do something about president of the oakland school board mike hutchinson says the oakland unified school district win over oakland education association's counter proposal sunday night until one. 30 am monday morning. >> the district has offered to give salary raises of up to 22% for teachers. but hutchinson says most of the common good goals are off the table items that are outside of the scope of the contract, which are basically compensation and work conditions are not going to be negotiated. that's been our standing authorization since last fall. 3 oakland school board directors spoke out monday in support of the teachers. we support oakland educators. >> and their fight for the contract directors. jennifer bro hard, valerie bachelor and then cedric williams say that coming good request should not have to be negotiated separately. it is critical usd to acknowledge its power. >> to repair generations of harm that has occurred to our black families. >> according to hutchinson state superintendent tony thurmond was supportive of contract negotiations to the weekend. the s

a pastor sends a message to a north carolina school board by reading explicit passages from a book about sex available of school libraries. tonight board members asked him to stop reading because it was so inappropriate. tells you all you need to know. that pastor joins us next. >> you don't want me to read the filth because it exposes the truth. how dear you tell me to stop reading it. if you don't want to hear it why should the children have to see it? as a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. so start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for small business: comcast business mobile. flexible data plans mean you can get unlimited data or pay by the gig. all on the most reliable 5g network, with no line activation fees or term contracts... saving you up to 75% a year. and it's only available to comcast business internet customers. so boost your bottom line by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities™. a controversial children's book teaching graphic sex acts complete with illustrations making the rounds in school libraries in classrooms l

the union is now getting support from half of the school board. in what could be a significant but complicated development. nbc bay area's has the details. >> reporter: another day on the picket lines is bringing a new voice, three of oakland's school board members calling on their colleagues to help put an end to the strike. >> it's time to have shared governance in our common good goals. i call on directors hutchinson, thompson, and sam davis to fight for a fair contract. >> reporter: in their own news conference, the school board members called on three counter parts to support so called common good proposals from the teachers union, a proposal that includes things like addressing student homelessness and reparations which have been a sticking point in the ongoing negotiations. >> there is money there to be able to support the needs of our kids, and we just really have to decide on are we going to prioritize that? >> reporter: the board members are also calling for shared governance, that would allow students, parents and teachers to take part

meanwhile, pen america and penguin random house have sued a florida school board for banning books. we will speak to the head of pen america suzanne nossel and professor kellie carter jackson. >> drafted by the tiegs -- he is trying to make us feel bad about being black but we are not tragically color. amy: plus, we will go to ecuador, where president guillermo lasso has dissolved parliament in order to avoid being impeached. we will speak to former ecuadorian presidential candidate andrÉs arauz. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. ukraine's military says its forces still control parts of bakhmut and are trying to encircle the decimated eastern city following claims by russia and wagner group mercenaries they fully captured bakhmut after months of bloody battles. wagoner says its forces will depart the city starting thursday through june 1, leaving the city to russia's military. zelenskyy appeared in japan where he sent photos of hiroshima after the 1945 atomic bombing by the u.s. reminded him of prese

joining me now, kimberly phoenix, a candidate for school board in the independent school district.struck me how the congresswoman talking about safety in a classroom. honestly, that is not what we're talking about here, still, bigger questions of what it means to be safe in this country. >> yes, very much so. we've been out here at the polls all day today. to find out 30 to 40 minutes ago that this was happening a stunt a hour away from our town is heartbreaking, just heartbreaking. >> heartbreaking, with disautel you about the moment that we find ourselves in? >> it sounds to me that we really need to think about every election for what it means to put our kids first and every local election really is so important. we have to start thinking about everything that is involved on the most minute, granular level about keeping your kids safe. >> kimberly phoenix, stay with me. i want to go back to congresswoman crockett. you heard what i just read there from ken paxton, the sort of standard that we have become accustomed to from republican leaders, specifically from this a.g.. your res

we watched a meeting where they talked about how to pressure the school boards into what they want. school libraries contain books with pornographic. >> i've read a lot of criticism of your group. people say this is like a moral panic, that people have an irrational fear of what's going on. >> we're not looking to ban books. we're not looking to burn books. we just need to get back to a system where parents know what their kids are learning, and for the most part it's educational, not political. >> reporter: one of the books is "slaughterhouse 5". >> i read that in high school. >> reporter: would you want that removed? >> again, age appropriate. >> reporter: is someone assigning a first grader to "slaughterhouse 5"? >> no. again, it's the right of the patients to know that it's there, that their children have access to something they may not have access to at home. >> reporter: one of the big issues right now is pronouns. in march, colorado's district 11 school board considered a proposal to prevent teachers from asking their pronouns, sparking protests. >> teachers can no longer as

personally haven't recommended a book be removed from the library, but if i was still sitting on school board, which i did here in florida from 2016 to 2020. i'm a mom of four children who attend public school ages 17 through 10 if i had been aware of the books that were in these libraries and i wasn't but i would have then actually asked for many of these books to be removed because i do not believe that they are appropriate for the age groups in which they're being presented and it's this more of an age group thing for you than it is a political ideology. yeah, i don't really think politics belong in this conversation at all. what we're seeing is some very sexually explicit graphic material that has made its way into our classrooms and our campuses and our school libraries, and i think parents would like to know a couple things including how did those books get there and what processes and procedures are there to stop that from happening again there. be accountability here for what children are being taught and exposed to in school and does that begin with electing the school board? yeah, i

>> no. >> reporter: for years, woodland park school board meetings were uneventful.bunch of thooefs and cowards, and i can't wait to vote you out. >> reporter: ever since new school board members won seats campaigning on conservative values and then made sweeping changes. >> they don't want to hear what you have to say. >> reporter: the board chose not to reply for grants that pay for students' mental health services, they hired a superintendent, kenneth witt who was previously recalled from his seat on a nearby school board after pushing a controversial history program. nbc news obtained this video from a staff meeting where witt defends his position on mental health. >> and delivering social services through schools tends to deter a lot of folks in education. >> reporter: the district also became the first in the country to implement a social studies program called american birthright, developed by conservative activists and rejected by educators around the country, including colorado state board of education. it emphasizes patriotism and discourages civic engageme

>> no. >> for years, woodland park's school board meetings were an eventful.ieves and cowards. i can't wait to vote you out. >> ever since new school board members one seek campaign on scored -- then made sweeping changes. >> the board chose not to reapply for grants that pay for students mental health services. they hired a superintendent, kenneth, wet who was previously recalled from his seat on a nearby school board after pushing a controversial history program. nbc news obtained this video from a staff meeting where he defends his position on mental health. >> delivering social services to the schools deters a lot of focus on education. >> the district became the first in the country to implement a social studies program called american birthright. developed by conservative activists and rejected by educators around the country. including colorado state board of education. it emphasizes patriotism and discourages seven engagement. >> it is terrifying. >> when sarah lee of woodlyn park teacher for almost two decades read what was inside the new program she

she also legitimated that everywhere they have removed fo the former school boards with the demands thating to grants and petaluma they have's requests t work at home is rozeboom ellie merritt's reported hostility. it seems like it's got very contentious and it is not surprising at all. >> no, i know beverly monday ha. she was a nice schoolwork who correlates with their parents when we get shut down and cut u by the school board members lik millionaire and so you know the trace i wrote this book called woke army. it is about the war on our children. and wearing the shirt called antifa versus mama bears becaus melody fake and a lot of these woke women who are make leisure positions and are activists are no and he is and anti-far in th spirit of the design moment we know, million turned and ideological. and what are you doing? so here is, you know, the beautiful american flag. she wanted to get rid of this, the symbol of our country. and what do they want to do? north street that was with parents and they want to sleep in their indoctrination. and that is why parents this thursday before t

to bring a final contract proposal to you guys yesterday and didn't yes, we're waiting on the school board to offer. um them the authority to bargain a full comprehensive proposal because any proposal from the district has to be signed off by the board before things can move forward, and they have their duty. the district and the union have been having productive conversations, but the school board has failed to meet to give their chief negotiator negotiator the authority to bargain with us. it's my dad is the union president with california or excuse me oakland education association, the union representing 3000, open teachers , thank you for speaking with us, and you heard some people driving by honking in support. we haven't seen any students or parents coming a crossing the picket line so far, it is again 7 30, so we'll see if that changes as we get closer to the regular start of the school day. now, the oakland unified school district is going to have its own news conference 10 30 this morning before then. district spokesperson has said. they are not going to be commenting or answering

you who have done the same thing any a lot of stories about individuals who decided to take on a school board of it they were worried about or run for office in the district that had not had any competitions are literally try to have it to be a users manual people frustrated by the state of thinking actually on the frustration i said there just watching what will happen to them like they are powerless. >> did you develop these principles from experience of. that uk and your former positions attorney democratic party in ohio, with are the things that we formulate how go about them. >> yes, that's great question from think that i learned that i thought i did well in numbers, lessons i've learned about things that i could've done better braided 20 is a wrote laboratories of hypocrisy and the people have not read that, it really does walk through the problem in here while it is not about you know, few individuals in washington, is what is happening interstate and statehouses because the way that our country is designed as a stays in the statehouses literally write most the rules of democracy, not

the fighting within the school board. >> for too long decision making power has been held at the district level. >>> and as california takes a step closer to possibly paying reparations for slavery, one woman shares her personal mission to build up san francisco's black community. >> when we're able to make these types of investments where we can pour back into community, it makes me excited, and it makes me hopeful for what the future has in store. >>> this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> so it is the first of its kind in contra costa county. police in antioch will no longer be the first responders to a mental health crisis. a new team is hitting the streets with the goal of taking on lower level 911 calls. so the shift is happening at a time when antioch's police department is dealing with its own crisis. 38 officers are on leave right now as part of investigations into racist text messages and police misconduct continue. now even before that the police department has been under scrutiny. the new team is named after a man who died after being restrained by antioch office

with leadership institute and train moms and dads who are stepping up and getting involved with school boardgram and you see, like in georgia, legislator mentioned parents who do not have high school diplomas have no right or say in what their children are being taught. it is important for parents to get involved. >> steve: you being head of the school board, you have to face these issues all the time. thank you for joining from florida. 8:25 in the east. coming up, praise for fake news, we're looking back at all awards main-stream media won for the russia probe coverage and some call for accolades to be returned to the givers. (cheering) imagine you're doing something you love. rsv could cut it short. rsv is a contagious virus that usually causes mild symptoms, but can cause more severe infections that may lead to hospitalizations, in adults 60 and older - and adults with certain underlying conditions, like copd, asthma, or congestive heart failure. talk to your doctor and visit cutshortrsv.com. we got the house! you did! pods handles the driving. pack at your pace. store your things until

. >>> a new controversy for the school board and the district. parents and community members are raising concerns about who is allowed to serve on the parental advisory council. some members blocked applicants because of their age and background. here is sergio cantata with more. >> during the san francisco unified school district board meeting parents and advisory board applicant josephine chow voiced her frustration with the way they select parents to serve. >> they have a pattern and now again to reject parents based on a certain race is because it is built in bylaws. they have major flaws to allow certain people to hijack this and block out other people. >> the parental advisory council is supposed to be made up of up to 18 parent volunteers. the council is funded by the school system and meets with the full school board once a month. for the last two years they've only had five members. they were surprised when they said the group entered into a closed session and rejected other parent applicants who they tried to recruit. >> we had for asia

three of the school board directors held a news conference outside district headquarters calling on the other three board members to support the so-called common good proposals from the teachers union, and direct the district to include them in the ongoing negotiations. so the proposals that include things like addressing student homelessness and reparations for black students have been sticking points during those negotiations. the board president held his own press conference calling on the union to end that strike while they negotiate. >> it's time to have shared governance in our common good goals. i call on directors hutchinson, thompson, and sam davis to fight for a fair contract and encourage our negotiating team to bargain in good faith. >> i understand there are two narratives out there and they both can't be true. this is one of the problems we're facing, oea has been putting out the message that the district has not been negotiating in good faith, and i am here to say that that is not true. >> we first reported on twitter told. at 5:00, she's going to be joining us with the l

yeah, mike, there's actually a rift among those oakland school board members. e of them want to go along with the teachers union proposal . those common good demands, but the board president and two others say that doesn't belong in a contract. so here we are again with teachers likely to strike again tomorrow. oakland teachers, educators in supporters came out by the hundreds. it's strike day three to win because this is what the student dessert classrooms, good teachers who want to be able to retain good teachers, and that means good salaries oakland unified has made would it calls a historic $70 million offer to increase pay by as much as 22% starting next year, but the union put forth more proposals to improve working conditions and the students experience. we still have a lot of work to do. uh around salary around special education and our common good demands. one of those being community schools focused on shared governance, a move that could result in more state funding decision making power must be shared with teachers, parents and students. three school

school board meeting is set for 6.45. we'll see what happens. it's teachers around the bay are fighting for higher pay. a new bill seeks to give all public school teachers in california. >> a major raise. the plan calls for the state to increase teacher salaries by 50% by the year 2030. and the lawmaker behind this bill says that the raises ness of cherry, if the state wants to attract and keep new teachers as of the 2021. 22 school year there are at least 10,000 teacher vacancies statewide. the bill recently passed the assembly education committee with bipartisan support. it has to be voted on now by the full state assembly. it's 807, and developing news out of oakland. the police department is investigating a shooting involving 2 officers that happened tuesday night in the area of 80th avenue. >> and plymouth street, it's unclear who fired the first shot, but investigators say the 2 officers did fire and hit a man and he was taken to the hospital. >> in the south bay, we have more interim housing coming to santa clara to help its unsheltered p

last week there was a school board meeting where a board member shannon rodriguez acknowledged that sheho reported barbee to the department of education because her daughter was in that class saying that barbee broke school policy because she did not get specific permission to show this particular film. here's what else the teacher barbee had to say about that school board meeting. >> she tried to tell me at the school board meeting that i opened a door for conversation, and that i stripped her of her right as a mother to have these conversations with her child. now that it's been brought to the spotlight all of my students are asking, why is that so wrong? why is it inappropriate? why are you in so much trouble because of this little part of the movie and i just have to keep saying no, go ask your parents about it. go talk to your parents about it, but now the door is open even more so because of it being brought to the spotlight. >> and this complaint does stem from that controversial florida law signed by governor ron desantis that banned certain discussions and conduct about sexual

take a look at how can we, parents are going to school board meetings, look at curriculum, if it is anti-american. are you prioritizing u.s. citizenship or global citizenship? i've seen that in my school district. there are ways to do it. it is time for parents to step forward and make a difference in that way. >> ashley: we have seen parents be villainized when they step forward. there are several of them and even kids step up and speak their mind. jane, youed homeschooling. what do you think of the future of school and going to school and getting on the school bus? do you think parents will see numbers and say, i'm not going to send my kid to school, i will homeschool them, do you think that is something they will see in the future? >> the homeschool movement is growing. i used to send my kid to public school, now i switched to homeschooling, he is a special needs kid, it works better for him. we have seen increase in homeschooling and you can tailor curriculum and pick it and figure out what is best for your kid and how your child learns the best. we'll see emphasis in that. in 2000 26, americ

five school board elections. um so a little bit of background in our san francisco schools over one out of three kids. has a parent who is a non citizen who doesn't have a say in the election of the policy makers that dictate the future of our san francisco public schools, and so over a number of years, there has been a movement to allow immigrant parents to vote in school board elections. few things i'll mention about that is our country has a very long history when it comes to allowing immigrants to vote. from 17 76 for 100 and 50 years until after world war. one immigrants were allowed to vote in most states in our country on the theory that we want to assimilate immigrants in american democratic values and institutions, and it wasn't until an anti immigrant backlash in world war one that that sort of ended. but in recent years, um cities across america have allowed this to happen. in fact, at this moment, believe there are over a dozen cities that have voted to allow non citizens to vote in a number of context

and the school board has overridden, time and again, they opinions of its own review panel.mpowered to actually read the challenge to books. to make it considered evaluation, do these belong in school libraries and classrooms or not? the panel has found value in these books, and yet the school board has swept their decision's aside. overridden it, and taken the books away. it's just a really egregious, almost eye-popping example of this national pattern. we are hoping that courts assessing this lawsuit will recognize that first and 14th amendment rights are being violated. and that school districts across the country will take notice. and put the books back on the shelf without having to be sued themselves. >> a member of the escambia school board told nbc news, that she was surprised by the lawsuit, because they were simply following state law that was set by the desantis administration. what is your response to that? >> look, these laws that have been passed are very vague. that is one of the most troubling aspects, the don't say gay law is not very specific about whether

moms for liberty chapter in el paso county, colorado, where conservatives won majorities on three school boardss watch a meeting where they talked about how to pressure the boards into making the policies they want. what school districts are most of you guys in? >> what moms for liberty has become most famous for is claiming school libraries contain books with forpornograp content. and for trying to get some books removed. according to the supreme court's definition of obscenity, they're not porn. >> i've read definitions of your group. people say this is kind of like a moral panic, that people have an irrational fear of what's going on. >> we're not looking to ban books. we're not looking to burn books. we just need to get back to a system where parents know what their kids are learning. and for the most part, it's educational and not political. >> one of the books on your list is kurt von gut's slaughterhouse 5. >> i read that in high school. >> no. again, age appropriate. >> whoo might not be appropriate for a 6-year-old is appropriate for a 15-year-old. >> is someone assigning a first grade

parent attending a school board meeting, pro-lifers praying at a clinic or catholics simply attending mass, you could be a target. >> stuart, saying has always been you can't fight city hall. we never dreamed we would be fighting the fbi. your thoughts? >> yes, i mean, look, trace, let me just put it this way. i think if you talk to any fbi agent today or 25 years ago, i think the consensus would be the fbi has never done great job in marshalling grievances or protecting whistleblowers. when you take that aside and you look at some of the things that are alleged that the fbi was up to, with respect to situating or setting up surveillances in church parking lots or in school board meetings, that in and of itself goes right to my argument that this culture, this stench that's permeated since jim come left in 2017, with respect to these guys sitting in the ivory tower on the seventh floor think they are the protector of our society, that's the core issue which is what the problem is present day that's ruining the fbi. we need to change that. that's the core issue. >> yes, i think many wo

we reached out to south madison indiana school board and we haven't heard back.kathy mcchord is suing them and she joins us now along with her attorney wagner. great to have you both on the show. kathy, i'm going to start with you. why did you decide to leak this. >> well, actually, when everything started with this new plan in the fall of '21, i was very much against it from the beginning because i just feel like schools and parents need to work together for the betterment of the kid but i went along with it in the beginning. and then in the next year a reporter approached me, who had talked to some parents who found out about it and asked if i would be willing to sit down with him to confirm the things he had found out about this plan. and so i did that. i answered his questions honestly which he pretty much knew everything about it at that point anyway in the next few weeks i was fired. >> rachel: the school says she was fired because she gave misleading statements. she doctored the documents. >> my producers looked at that document from december and said it's