Why were parents kept in the dark about California school district’s partnership with a US-Islamic relations council?

As a parent whose children attended San Juan Unified schools in Northern California, I was stunned to learn that between 2022 and 2024, the district accepted nearly $360,000 from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

This was not a small donation quietly placed into a general education fund.

An investigative report by Defending Education found that […] ...