filing<\/a> by the Thomas More Society, which represents the plaintiffs, state defendants misrepresented that they had withdrawn the policies, but instead, implemented mandatory teacher training called PRISM, an online program for certificated educators that provides resources to support LGBTQ+ youth in California.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is an egregious attempt to mislead the Court,\u201d the filing stated.<\/p>\n
Peter Breen, executive vice president and head of litigation at the Thomas More Society, said local school district officials continue to deflect responsibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey know this is a losing legal battle. Now they\u2019ve been caught not only lying to California taxpayers but attempting to mislead the Court to escape accountability. That\u2019s unacceptable,\u201d Breen stated.<\/p>\n
The Center Square contacted the CDE and Bonta for comment on the court order, but received no response.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also a slap in the face to all of the California parents and teachers that are members of this certified federal civil rights class action,\u201d Paul Jonna, attorney at Thomas More Society and Partner at LiMandri & Jonna, said. \u201cWe will do everything we can do to make sure the State Defendants and their counsel are held fully accountable under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n
This matter will be addressed at the next summary judgment hearing, which will be on Nov. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square) – A federal judge ordered the California Department of Education and Attorney General Rob Bonta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9778,7,9,8,14600,5782,4294,30887,9914,30886],"class_list":{"0":"post-47300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-attorney-general-rob-bonta","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-center-square","13":"tag-federal-judge","14":"tag-gender-identity","15":"tag-peter-breen","16":"tag-roger-benitez","17":"tag-thomas-more-society"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47300","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=47300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}