{"id":291553,"date":"2026-04-29T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291553\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:33:19","slug":"exclusive-california-school-district-uses-taxpayer-funds-for-lgbtq-events-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291553\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: California school district uses taxpayer funds for LGBTQ+ events | California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">(The Center Square) \u2013 A California school district is using taxpayer funds to host LGBTQ+ community events, according to district materials uncovered by Defending Education and <a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/incidents\/san-francisco-unified-school-district-is-celebrating-april-as-honoring-the-identities-and-history-of-the-lgbtq-community-for-over-35-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared<\/a> exclusively with The Center Square.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The San Francisco Unified School District has announced that \u201cApril is SFUSD\u2019s Pride Month!\u201d as part of its ongoing recognition of LGBTQ+ identities and history.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The district said it has honored the LGBTQ+ community for more than 35 years and is recommitting to \u201cour shared value that everyone deserves to feel like they belong.\u201d This year\u2019s theme is \u201cFreedom to Be: Art, Joy, and Resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As part of the celebration, the district hosted a publicly funded youth pride event this week that included activities such as drag makeup lessons, opportunities for students to sing with the San Francisco Gay Men&#8217;s Chorus, and distribution of a \u201cSupport Guide: For Parents and Caregivers of LGBTQ+ Youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The amount of money spent on the Pride Month events has not been disclosed by the school district, which did not respond to The Center Square&#8217;s request for comment by press time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The district&#8217;s parent support guide describes \u201cworry dumping\u201d as a situation in which \u201cwell-meaning caregivers\u201d place their concerns on a child after the child comes out as LGBTQ+. It encourages parents to instead process those concerns privately, including through journaling, rather than expressing them directly to their child.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The district has restricted public access to some documents related to student events, limiting outside review of certain materials.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Erika Sanzi, director of communications at Defending Education, told The Center Square that the district\u2019s focus is misplaced.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;San Francisco&#8217;s insistence in prioritizing PRIDE events is out of step with what students need from their schools,\u201d Sanzi told The Center Square. \u201cTeaching students to do drag make-up is not appropriate for a school-sponsored event! And the fact that so many of the PRIDE documents are locked from public view is a red flag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">SFUSD serves approximately 48,000 to 50,000 students across more than 120 schools, including K\u201312.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For the 2025\u201326 school year, SFUSD adopted a budget with projected revenues of approximately $1.2 billion and planned expenditures of roughly $1.3 billion, resulting in a $102 million deficit. More than 85% of the budget is allocated to staffing and employee benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square) \u2013 A California school district is using taxpayer funds to host LGBTQ+ community events, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,2434,33193,15254],"class_list":["post-291553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-lgbtq","tag-san-francisco-unified-school-district","tag-sfusd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}