Mother-daughter school board members attempt to bring weapon into Phoenix school

Arizona State Rep. Lydia Hernandez. (Cartwright Elementary School District)

A week after a fatal stabbing at Maryvale High School left the west Phoenix community in mourning, calls for the resignation of two school board members are mounting after they attempted to bring a weapon onto the same campus in an effort, according to a district statement, to test the school’s security system.

Arizona State Rep. Lydia Hernandez, who for over two decades has served as a member on the Cartwright Elementary School District Board and is the current president, and Cassandra Hernandez, her 20-year-old daughter who in 2024 was elected onto the same school board, are under fire after causing a “disruption” at the high school.

On Monday, they attempted "to circumvent our safety systems and knowingly