Temecula Valley educators recommend Loner, Skumawitz and Schwartz in 2020 TVUSD school board district elections

Jeff Kingsberg, Temecula Valley Educators Association Temecula Valley Unified School District residents have an opportunity to make a change for the better this fall. Trustees are to be elected in Districts 1, 4 and 5. The TVUSD governing board has an important obligation as an oversight body. Elected by the community, they provide a critical check and balance against the passions of the TVUSD executive cabinet. The currently composed TVUSD governing board has fallen short in meeting this obligation since the COVID-19 period fell upon California schools in March. The board seems to lack confidence and cohesiveness as a group and appears indecisive. Meetings have lingered on inefficiently, often into the four to five- hour range. Board member responses to staff reports center around