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Nana Chancellor. Lythcott-Haims asked them about Allyson Rosen, a Stanford psyText messages between Councilwoman chologist who applied for the city’s Human Julie Lythcott-Haims and her school district Relations Commission in October. “I’m hearing there are concerns about friends show that Lythcott-Haims voted against a volunteer for a city commission (Rosen) based on ‘PAUSD issues.’ Does any because of the volunteer’s views on Gaza of you have an opinion?” Lythcott-Haims asked the group chat on Oct. 3. and math. “Yes. Do not let her on there,” said DiLythcott-Haims sought advice in a group chat with former school board president Brienza, who was on the school board from Jennifer DiBrienza, former school board 2016 to 2024. Rosen has a PhD “in something” and candidate Nicole Chiu-Wang and parent bills herself as “a data person” but twists data to suit her agenda, DiBrienza said. TEXTS obtained by the Post through a “She is one of the math acceleration California Public Records Act request people. She is very unsympathetic toward shows Palo Alto Councilwoman Julie LyGaza,” DiBrienza said. Rosen went to a thcott-Haims asking her friends about an [See TEXTS, page 18] applicant for a city commission. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
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CORRECTION: An April 23 story about utility bills included the wrong increase proposed for electric rates. The Palo Alto Finance Committee has recommended a roughly 4.5% rate increase. COMEY INDICTED AGAIN: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted again, this time over a social media photo of seashells arranged on a beach that officials say constituted a threat against President Trump. Comey says he assumed the arrangement of shells reading “86 47” was a political message, not a call to violence against Trump, the 47th president. UAE LEAVES OPEC: The United Arab Emirates will leave OPEC [See THE UPDATE, page 23]
‘Critical tipping point’ for math first- and second-graders for basic math skills, and give them extra help Just a few months after California if they’re behind. The idea is to help overhauled the way it teaches children those children catch up to their peers to read, a new bill takes on math ed- who might have had much more exucation — and may be just as contro- posure to math before starting school. “A student’s early math skills are the versial. Senate Bill 1067 would require most powerful predictor of their later schools to screen all kindergartners, success in school,” said Amy Cooper, BY CAROLYN JONES CalMatters
a senior advisor at EdVoice, an education nonprofit that’s cosponsoring the bill. “We’re not talking about tracking kids. There’s no labels. It’s just about getting support to students so that they can get up to grade level.” California students, in all grade levels, have long struggled in math. Last [See MATH, page 19]
Council considers RV parking ban TRUSTED said it was interested in banning RVs citywide, but wanted to focus on reachSan Carlos City Council is eyeing in- ing out to affected businesses and RV creasing parking ticket fines and over- dwellers. “It’s kind of a whack-a-mole, if you night parking restrictions to combat the increased number of RVs parked on the ban it in one place, they’re going to move to another,” Councilwoman Sara city’s east side. The majority of council on Monday McDowell said. BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ
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McDowell said she would support any police that addresses the concerns of business owners. She was worried that if the city chose to implement a permit program, it would divert significant resources from the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. A ban would [See RV, page 18]
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