“Cataldo, a former special education teacher, said: ‘What are we doing in government if we’re not ensuring that a student can read?’”

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“He and his fellow members met to discuss their findings in a draft report that despite extensive efforts to fight harassment of other groups, ‘those same districts in many cases, leave out the Jews,’ as Commission Co-chair Rep. Simon Cataldo (D-Concord) puts it.”

"There's a cultural issue. There's a moral issue," Cataldo said. "And that's always been the case when it comes to antisemitism. What we saw in the hearing shows us how far we have to go."

“I think it would be irresponsible of our state education system and our local districts not to give serious consideration to creating the framework and the safeguards that the bill proposes.”

“What we’re trying to do here is avoid a tragedy of somebody’s child or grandchild getting shot in their backyard, inadvertently,” Cataldo said in testimony before the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources in November of 2023. 

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“For instance, when Cataldo showed Page the dollar bills folded into the Star of David and asked whether he agreed it was antisemitic imagery, Page responded, ‘I’m not going to evaluate that.’”