[7] In 2021, the conservative Community Oriented Public Servants (COPS) PAC allied with The Oregon Republican Party to elect Newberg School Board candidates.
[9] The year prior, Dave Brown was the sole dissenting vote in a 5-1 antiracism resolution.
[10] In July 2021, the Newberg School Board voted to ban Pride and Black Lives Matter symbols.
[12] On September 20, a Newberg Public Schools employee was placed on administrative leave after reporting for work while wearing blackface, referring to herself as the "Rosa Parks of vaccines" to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
[13][14] In September 2022, the targeted ban of modern civil rights movements was ruled unlawful by a Yamhill judge.