Ethnic Studies Curriculum Proposal Fails

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California’s Divisive Ethnic Studies Curriculum Proposal Fails

In 2016, California lawmakers passed a bill requiring that ethnic studies be added to the state’s secondary school curriculum. A curriculum was subsequently drafted and made available for review.

The reaction to the draft has been extraordinarily negative, some say surprisingly so for California, which is the most politically progressive state in the country. Media headlines criticizing the draft include “Signs of Anti-Semitism in State’s Ethnic Studies Plan,” “Critics Slam Draft of California Ethnic Studies Program as Far-Left, Anti-Jewish Propoganda,” “California’s proposed new ethnic studies curriculum is jargon-filled and all-too-PC,” and the not-so-subtle “Ethnic Studies Time Bomb Explodes.”