A California school district voted to reject a state-recommended curriculum due to a textbook included in the guidelines that mentions gay-rights icon Milk.
, Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, and was championed for working alongside the city's mayor, George Moscone, for pushing legislation that outlawed discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation. Both Milk and Moscone were assassinated by a fellow board supervisor in 1978—11 months after Milk took office.
Anna Tapley, TVUSD's director of curriculum and instruction, said during the board's meeting in May that the curriculum in question does not specifically mention Milk but instead includes a short biography on the activist's work in a supplemental resource for teachers, reported CNN. In response to Newsom's tweet on Thursday, Komrosky said that Newsom had"mischaracterized" TVUSD's opposition to the curriculum, which the school board's president said was part of a"pilot study conducted by" the Temecula Valley school district.
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