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Trustee Elizabeth Jonasson Rosas spoke out for the first time about Ashjian’s remarks. “I firmly believe in love and equality. I don’t believe we can make someone gay by teaching them sex education or want to change their gender, for that matter.”
Fresno Unified employees stand to speak out re: Ashjian's LGBT remarks. "We stand for acceptance of all students." pic.twitter.com/7s4a8Q78We — Mackenzie Mays (@MackenzieMays) September 14, 2017 During public comments, approximately 30 administrators, teachers and staff from Fresno Unified stood at the Fresno Unified School District board meeting, the following statement was read to the board:
This article has been updated On August 21st a group of pastors submitted a properly completed agenda item request form. Our community was informed that it would be placed on the September 13th agenda. On September 8th the agenda was posted, missing this agenda item. After repeated calls and emails, David Chavez, Special Assistant to the Superintendent,
As consumers, we typically purchase products without putting any thought into where it is that we are spending our hard-earned money. Although, there are consumers, possibly very few, who take the time to consider the motives a business stands for. How often do we as consumers stop to research the companies and businesses that we
Via The Fresno Bee, we’ve learned that Trustees Cal Johnson and Valerie Davis said Monday they would support removing Brooke Ashjian as board president. Trustee Christopher De La Cerda previously called for his resignation and is assumed to be a yes vote as well. That means three trustees have not yet taken a position. They are:
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A group of 13 pastors read a press release today, condemning Fresno Unified School District President Brooke Ashjian’s recent statement. The release states: THE COALITION STANDS IN OPPOSITION TO THE REMARKS AND VIEWPOINTS OF MR. ASHJIAN AND DEMAND THAT HE BE CENSURED OR REMOVED AS SCHOOOL BOARD PRESIDENT. For Immediate Release: We, as representatives of
In the most recent statements by Brooke Ashjian, the current president of the board for Fresno Unified School District, he equated the movement for the rights and well-being of the LGBT community to the actions of the Ottoman Empire in 1915, when they massacred over a million Armenian people. The Armenian community is an important
1. Brooke Ashjian is president of the Fresno Unified School District Board 2. He has a history of being anti-LGBT including accusing a local LGBT organization of pimping him out… Yeah, it makes no sense to anyone else either. 3. There is a CA law that went into effective in 2016 that requires that middle and high schools
