The choice is clear: between one of the union hacks and a true fighter for parental rights.
Chino Valley Unified School District board President Sonja Shaw is seen Thursday, July 20, 2023, telling a woman who disrupted the school board meeting to leave the room at Don Lugo High School in Chino.
Sonja Shaw was a mom of two schoolgirls thrown into politics in 2020 by the COVID school lockdowns. In 2022, she was elected president of Chino Valley Unified’sAlthough the post officially is nonpartisan, she is a Republican. In the top-two June 2 primary, she almost certainly will be one of the finalists.among four Democrats: Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi is backed by the California Federation of Teachers; former state Sen. Josh Newman, by the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California; former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, by the SEIU; and Richard Barrera, president of the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education, by the California Teachers Association. Whoever grabs the second slot will unify all the unions against Shaw. “I was never, ever involved politically until I realized they were coming after our kids, and I realized I had a moral obligation to get involved,” Shaw told me in an interview as she was “running” to her car after meeting with parents in Chula Vista.Board Policy 5020.1. Under it, schools would be required to notify parents if a student asked to use a different name or pronoun, to access facilities or programs that didn’t match their sex on the birth certificate or to change official records. California Attorney General Rob Bonta called it “forced outing” and sued. The district was represented by the conservative Liberty Justice Center. In a court case, the school agreed to drop the parts about using pronouns or facilities, but kept the part about notification for official record changes. The final ruling in San Bernardino County Superior Court came on Sept. 11, 2024, and was not appealed by Bonta.If Shaw wins, I mentioned she might serve with Bonta if he’s re-elected. “Oh, we’re gonna have fun,” she said. “I mean, I don’t back down, he doesn’t back down. Guess what?” Although lawsuits make headlines, parents are mostly concerned about academics. I quipped to her, no matter who wins, they couldn’t possibly do worse than outgoing Superintendent Tony Thurmond, now running a quixotic campaign for governor. He failed to protest Gov. Gavin Newsom’s draconian COVID lockdowns.for fiscal year 2026-27, which plans $27,418 in average pupil spending, an incredible amount and a 60.8% increase in his tenure. Yet California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress scores statewide“I call it failure and betrayal,” Shaw said. She added a UC San Diego Senate-Administration Workgroup on Admissions Final Report last November found 11.8% of incoming students needed remedial math.from near the bottom of rankings of states for the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests to ninth in reading and 16in math in 2024. Even more impressive, it scored first in reading and third in math for Hispanic students, and third for African American students in reading and math. Shaw said she would bring the Mississippi “vision” of stressing basic reading and math to California. She also strongly favors charter schools, which “saved my child when I didn’t trust my local district,” before she became superintendent. And charters provide “healthy competition” for traditional public schools. Like other Republicans running for statewide office in this heavily Democratic state, Shaw faces a long race to the head of the class. But even more than in other races, and in an area directly affecting people’s precious children, the choice is clear: between one of the union hacks and a true fighter for parental rights.Trying again: Environmental groups want a rehearing on California rooftop solar rulesSan Diego loses population as immigration nosedives. What are the consequences?32 years after a man was found dead on a Pacific Beach porch, San Diego police have a suspectExcess load on transmission line may have caused SDG&E power outage to 103,000 customers Its schools are falling apart, and voters won’t pass a bond. Could a little-used tactic help this district?
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