In this conversation, Jeff Pack interviews Alison Barclay, a former school board member at TVUSD, about the controversial anti-CRT resolution passed by the then-TVUSD board majority in 2022. They discuss the implications of this resolution, the subsequent lawsuit (Mae vs. Komrosky) and impending possible seven-figure settlement, and the educational consequences for the district.

The recent release of a third-party investigation thoroughly discredited Wiersma’s public sexual harassment accusation against fellow Trustee Steven Schwartz. The report from Nicole Miller & Associates found the claim unsubstantiated, inconsistent, and likely driven by political and personal grievances, including Wiersma’s disappointment at not being named board president.

By now, Temecula Valley Unified School District families have come to expect all flash, no substance from Board Members Jen Wiersma and Joe Komrosky. But their latest batch of resolutions makes one thing clearer than ever: Wiersma and Komrosky are more interested in fueling a culture war than preparing students for the real world.

As the failures mounted—court losses, rescinded policies, wasted taxpayer dollars—Temecula Valley Unified trustees Jen Wiersma and Joseph Komrosky didn’t accept responsibility.

They attacked.

Not the policies or the process or the facts.

They attacked their colleagues.

Wiersma’s role as a school board trustee is to improve student outcomes, ensure legal compliance, and be a responsible steward of public funds. Instead, she continues to wage a personal culture war rooted in misinformation and grievance politics.

“What is harmful about the status quo should the preliminary injunction issue?” the court asked, pointing to the lack of evidence that CRT had ever been taught in the district. “Defendants’ appellate counsel conceded at oral argument that there is no evidence that any of the Resolution’s enumerated elements or concepts of CRT have ever been taught in District schools.”

At a critical meeting of the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) Board of Education, Trustees Joseph Komrosky and Jen Wiersma voted against two standard measures designed to secure future funding for student infrastructure—despite thorough presentations by district staff and financial experts.

In a decisive legal rebuke, the California Fourth District Court of Appeal has overturned the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s 2022 resolution banning Critical Race Theory (CRT), calling the policy “unconstitutionally vague” and ordering a preliminary injunction to halt its enforcement.