Board conservatives had concerns about whether the lesson was appropriate for fourth graders. In a compromise, board members agreed to postpone one of the curriculum’s fourth-grade lessons so it could be reviewed further. The Temecula Valley Unified School District board voted 4-0 - Danny Gonzalez, part of the board’s conservative majority, was absent - in a special meeting to consider adopting the TCI Social Studies Alive! curriculum for first- through fifth-graders. Gavin Newsom’s ire after some board members disparaged LGBTQ icon Harvey Milk. In a hastily called meeting lasting until almost midnight, Temecula’s school board late Friday night, July 21, approved a new elementary school social studies curriculum that it twice rejected and by doing so drew Gov.
