An Olympia School Board move to appoint an outspoken anti-police activist and convicted criminal to fill a vacancy on the board caught many South Puget Sound-area parents by surprise, one mother told The Dori Monson Show Wednesday.
But now, parent Alesha Perkins told Dori’s listeners, the grassroots startup OSD Rescue is pushing back against the unanimous appointment of Talauna Martin Reed, the board’s first Black director.
Adding Reed to the five-member board of directors is proof that “academics have been abandoned in favor of ideology” in Olympia schools, Perkins said.
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Perkins said she and other community
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