Newsom adopted the law to spite conservatives who had won seats on local school boards in the 2022 midterm elections, and who had begun to push back against \u201cwoke\u201d indoctrination.<\/p>\n
On the national level, President Joe Biden and then-Attorney General Merrick Garland had smeared parents<\/a> as \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d if they stood up at school board meetings.<\/p>\n Gavin Newsom at the San Francisco gay pride parade on June, 24, 2018. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n That only made parents more determined to take back control of their schools, even in deep-blue California.<\/p>\n In the community of Chino Hills, school board president Sonja Shaw spearheaded a new policy that required schools to keep parents informed.<\/p>\n California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond invaded the board meeting to protest, and Shaw had to have him removed<\/a>. (Shaw is now one of the two finalists for his position in the general election in November.)<\/p>\n Newsom responded by signing AB 1955 into law.<\/p>\n Newsom then responded by signing AB 1955 into law. But he could not defend his opposition to parents\u2019 rights. In fact, when asked<\/a> why parents didn\u2019t have the right to know about their own children, he tried to deflect the question, saying it wasn\u2019t a major issue for voters anyway.<\/p>\n The vast majority of Californians support parents\u2019 rights, but Newsom dared not defy the LGBTQ+ activists in his base.<\/p>\n Parents and teachers went to court, and the Supreme Court agreed with them<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n Separately, the City of Huntington Beach had sued the state over the policy \u2014 one of many policies on which the conservative town has clashed with the liberal overlords in Sacramento.<\/p>\n![\"Gavin](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8775c703fcb4280a3b049fd2330b1f14.jpeg\"\/)
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