The Anti-Defamation League criticized on Tuesday a candidate for a Brooklyn school board seat who said that if elected she “cannot and will not represent any other group” than Christians. A school board candidate should “represent the interests of all students” in the district, “regardless of the students race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity,” the ADL said in a letter to candidate Arlene Rutuelo.
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