Two conservative members of the Orange Unified School District have been recalled, the Los Angeles Times reports.
School Board Trustees Rick Ledesma and Madison Miner “were warriors who took high-profile, aggressively conservative stands in front of cheering audiences of the like-minded,” the Times reported.
For example, the board majority approved a policy requiring “educators to inform parents when a student requests ‘to be identified as a gender other than that student’s biological sex or the gender listed on the birth certificate or any other official records,'” the Times added.
The contentious policy and similar issues have drawn a great deal of attention to local school boards, including another recall effort aimed at the president of the Temecula Valley Unified School District.
Outside of policy, the effort to recall Ledesma and Miner prompted allegations of underhanded election tactics such as the theft of signs.
Miner previously told KTLA’s Chip Yost that she installed trackers in some of her signs, which she tracked to an alleged thief’s home.