Frazer

Appellants Richard and Debbie Frazer (appellants) timely appeal from the denial of their petition for a writ of mandate and for declaratory relief against respondents Dixon Unified School District and its governing board (Board) and superintendent, J. Gerry Laird (Superintendent) (collectively, hereafter respondents or the District), which was originally filed in Solano Superior Court in May 1990. By their petition, appellants sought to compel respondents to establish a second task force to conduct an open, public review of the District’s K-5 language arts curriculum—the so-called “Impressions” series. The Impressions materials had been approved by the District a year earlier, in May 1989, after a one-year pilot project and a six-week period for public viewing of the proposed materials, at the recommendation of the District’s Language Arts Task Force (LATF). The adoption of the Impressions curriculum was confirmed in May 1990 by a hearing committee which was appointed by the District Superintendent to review the LATF decision in light of parental complaints that the new curriculum was unwholesome, encouraged disobedience and antisocial behavior, contained satanic and…