The Federalist89%
California Races To Neuter Office That A Conservative Might Win 83%
By Chris Bray86%
6/29/2026, 11:32:44 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 31 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Unattributed Quote, and Politically Right Leaning Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 63.8% saturation with 222 hits. Analysis detected 1,660 faulty-reasoning hits from 348 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 74.1% and a BS Rank of 83% (3,893 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.20% of the article peer group.
California legislators are acting quickly to protect the state from voters.
One of the surprises in California’s primary elections this year was the success of Sonja Shaw, a Southern California school board member who has led an effort to secure parental notification policies in a state that wants to protect secret sexual discussions between groomer teachers and children.
With Shaw as its president, the Chino Valley School Board adopted a policy requiring school officials to notify parents when students declare a new gender identity on campus.
That local policy effort led to bruising litigation that ended with a tenuous victory for parents.
Though ongoing appellate litigation purportedly places school districts in a “legal limbo,” the state can’t currently prevent districts from adopting parental notification policies.
This year, Shaw ran for a statewide role as California’s superintendent of public education.
In a deep blue state that doesn’t elect Republicans to statewide office, Shaw was the top vote-getter in the primary, with close to a quarter of the vote against a crowded field.
A pro-parent conservative has a real shot at becoming the state’s top public school official.
So here’s a Friday headline from an education news website: “State superintendent will no longer manage California schools under deal Newsom cuts with Legislature.”
The conservative activist Lance Christensen, a vice president at the California Policy Center, sounded the alarm about a “gut-and-amend” bill that had no text until late last week but is suddenly set to race to the governor’s desk for a signature.
You can read the full text of AB 181 here.
The likely-to-succeed bill proposes to transfer authority for public schools to an “education commissioner” appointed by the governor, turning the role of the superintendent of public schools into a functionally empty advocacy role: “the independently elected nonpartisan voice for the public interest in the governance of the state’s educational system.”
The job would be to give speeches and attend rallies.
Shaw's reaction:
New blue state tactic: When conservatives threaten to win public office, make the office meaningless.
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