California school board officials plead for protection from protesting parents

Meetings across the state have been disrupted by aggressive family refusing to wear masks and threatening board members

The California school boards association has pleaded with the governor to protect education officials facing an unprecedented increase in hostility", as board meetings across the state have been rocked by aggressive protests over Covid-19 restrictions.

In a letter to Gavin Newsom, the association, which represents nearly 1,000 education agencies across the state, said school board members have been accosted, verbally abused, physically assaulted, and subjected to death threats against themselves and their family members".