After the Beverly Hills Unified school board voted earlier this week to display Israeli flags on campuses during Jewish American Heritage Month, the board is set to vote again later today to reverse that vote and adopt a permanent district-wide policy to display only U.S. and California flags.

The new policy aligns with the superintendent's directive, "no flags will be displayed on our campuses other than the flag of the United States of America and the flag of the State of California."

In a written Aug. 28 message to the BHUSD community, Superintendent Dr. Alex Cherniss cited Board Policy 2210 to reverse the board's vote, doing so out of "heightened safety concerns around the displaying of flags on our campuses." He said he decided to take immediate action for the safety and securit

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