Desert Sands superintendent apologizes after staff object to district guidance on Mahmood v. Taylor ruling

Superintendent Dr. Kelly May Volmar apologized publicly at the Desert Sands Unified School District board meeting Tuesday after employees said a district email about the U.S. Supreme Court's Mahmood v. Taylor decision overreached and harmed staff and students. The apology came after multiple employees in the public-comment period told the board the district's guidance, which asked principals to postpone instruction on potentially controversial topics, applied districtwide rather than narrowly to the pre-K through fifth-grade students targeted by the ruling. "By preemptively asking educators not to educate about history as well as large swaths of our community, you're denying their history in existence," said Amy Douglas, who…