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    LA school officials double down on LGBTQ+ support in wake of protests

    by Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times Jun 08, 2023 3 minutes
    Police officers stand watch over demonstrators during a school board meeting at the Glendale Unified School District headquarters on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Glendale, California.

    LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles school board President Jackie Goldberg pulled out an oversized children's book titled "The Great Big Book of Families" and turned a public meeting into story time, her own not-so-subtle statement to critics of LGBTQ+ education.

    "In real life, families come in all sorts of shapes and sizes," she read, as the text by British author Mary Hoffman explained. Some children live with "mummy and daddy," or just their mummy or daddy.

    Goldberg soon got to the line "Some children have two mommies or two daddies."

    "A great book," she said after reading

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