Karen Sylvester is complicit in supporting this board's fiscal and academic decisions. She consistently votes in line with only progressive, liberal policies. Most parents in this district have encountered challenges with at least one of the following issues: academic performance, adequate support for special needs, proper assessments and services for IEPs, ineffective bullying policies, dress code enforcement, or the dangerous policies mixing of genders in bathrooms, locker rooms, outdoor school and sports, among others. *Note: Image from Niche — current CVUSD board supporters recognize Niche as a valid source.*
Learn MoreConejo Together: This group, started in 2020 by Mary Anne Van Zuyle, Jon Cummings and Betsy Connolly, with the goal of supporting candidates for Conejo Valley School Board with progressive values AND with the goal to remove any conservative candidate running for school board in our schools. They are also linked with Indivisible Conejo, as you can see in this letter written in 2022 (click "learn more"). All board members are very active with Conejo Together. Again, our assertion is that Conejo Together seems to have the track record of promoting to the community that our schools are doing only amazing and without problems while assisting in discrediting parents that come to board meetings with concerns. Lets be clear there are good and bad things happening in CVUSD, anyone telling you otherwise may be a part of the problem.
Learn MoreAll CVUSD board members have supported and voted for district policies that dismissed parents wanting to have knowledge when controversial LGTBQ material would be presented in elementary classrooms to their children. The district said NO, we WILL NOT tell parents if we will read a transgender book in class. We will not inform you.