Temecula board pauses rehearing, forms CRT subcommittee and approves $50,000 fee compromise
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Summary
The Temecula Valley Unified School District board declined to pursue a rehearing in pending litigation and instead created a subcommittee to rewrite the district's CRT policy; the board also approved a $50,000 fee compromise with Advocates for Faith and Freedom.
The Temecula Valley Unified School District Board of Education voted on litigation and policy steps tied to a lawsuit over the district’s Critical Race Theory (CRT) resolution on June 10.
The board did not approve a motion to file a petition for rehearing in case CVSW2306224 (vote recorded as 3–2 then corrected and entered as not adopted). Instead the board adopted a motion to suspend Resolution 2020-2223-21 (the district policy prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory) and unanimously formed a CRT subcommittee charged with rewriting the CRT policy. The board also approved a $50,000 compromise of fees with Advocates for Faith and Freedom to resolve liabilities under the parties’ contract.
The subcommittee will include Member Emil Barham and Member Joseph Komrodsky and is to work with Advocates for Faith and Freedom on revisions. The motions to suspend the existing resolution and to form the subcommittee passed with unanimous votes; the rehearing petition motion was not adopted after members clarified the roll-call outcome. The board also voted to name Emil Barham as point of contact for the CRT rewrite committee by a 3–2 vote. These items were discussed in open session after items read out from closed session. No further legal filings or policy text were adopted at the meeting; the board recorded the decisions and directed the subcommittee to move forward.
