
Kyle Raney
Kyle A. Raney is a Partner at Lozano Smith in Sacramento and co-chair of the firm's Student Practice Group, specializing in special education and student issues for California education agencies.
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Sep 17, 2026
E108 What’s Next For School Districts Under Mirabelli and Mahmoud
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Michelle CannonHOST
And this was because too many parents were trying to opt out of too much of it? According to

Kyle RaneyGUEST
And so they began just using those books with those grade levels, and they actually went a step further, and they gave teachers talking points to say, you know, let's say a student, if you read one of these books to a student, a student said, hey, you know, I go to church every Sunday, and I learned that only a man and a woman can marry or your God made you, you know, a boy or a girl, something like that.

Kyle RaneyGUEST
They were supposed to respond and say that that's hurtful and that's wrong, essentially.

Kyle RaneyGUEST
So the Supreme Court described these these books as unmistakably normative, that they were coercive.

Michelle CannonHOST
And so this sounds different than just blanket opt-outs of, you know, I want to opt my child out of all LGBTQ materials.