Komrosky, Wiersma throw tantrum, refuse to approve revised parental notification policies, scream over board member comments and storm out of meeting

May2025 TVUSD Good Governance Report Card

The Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) Board of Trustees is set to convene on Tuesday, June 10, for a meeting heavy with policy revisions, budgetary maneuvers, and controversial legal agreements — continuing what many parents and community observers see as a politicized drift away from student-centered governance.

The current majority of the Murrieta Valley USD board has made it crystal clear: bring on the lawsuits. As the board majority works to push through new policies and board resolutions, they also publicly shared that they welcome the resulting costly legal challenges.

“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.

During Tuesday night’s Temecula City Council meeting, Mayor Brenden Kalfus presented the council with a new policy, seemingly derived out of thin air, that proposed moving city council meetings to a different time of the day on Tuesdays. 

After a 4-1 vote, as of July, Temecula City Council meetings will begin with closed session at 2 p.m. and open session at 3 p.m. 

Meetings previously, like Tuesday’s meeting, started at 5 p.m. with a closed session, and the public open session started at 6 p.m.

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.