When California lawmakers made “ethnic studies” a graduation requirement for K-12 students three years ago, they hoped their state would become a national model. It is—of what not to do.
Ask the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a Jewish advocacy organization.
Along with attorneys from the American Jewish Committee, among others, the center presented evidence in a lawsuit last year that a California school district intentionally tried to exclude Jewish students and families from meetings about the district’s K-12 ethnic studies courses.
District officials made antisemitic comments at the meeting, according to documents presented by the litigants, which further showed that the new curriculum has a decidedly discriminatory slant.
