ethnic studies – California Globe

Dissension and Chaos: Behind the Curtain of the California School Board Land Acknowledgement Craze

March 21, 2025 7:37 amMarch 21, 2025 7:37 am

Yesterday I posted two videos that depicted various school boards around California making “Land Acknowledgement” statements at the beginning of their board meetings. Those posts—found here and here—provided very little explanation. Sorry about that… but what was your impression? Questions? ...

New Bill Introduced to Create Content Standards For Ethnic Studies Classes

February 24, 2025 1:17 pmFebruary 24, 2025 1:30 pm

Over the weekend, a new bill that would create content standards for high school ethnic studies courses and have the state review curriculum and materials for ethnic studies courses was introduced in the Assembly. Assembly Bill 1468, authored by Assemblyman...

I Grew Up With Soviet Communism; Now as a Trustee I See It Embedded in California’s Ethnic Studies

September 14, 2024 3:30 amSeptember 14, 2024 3:31 am

As a school board member in the Ramona Unified School District in San Diego County, when I read the Santa Ana Liberated Ethnic Studies curriculum for the first time, it brought back childhood memories from growing up in the Soviet...

California Teachers Association’s ‘Curriculum’ of Shame

February 16, 2024 12:10 pmFebruary 16, 2024 3:06 pm

The California Teachers Association just made clear—again—it does not give a fig about your child’s education. Indoctrination? Oh yeah. Education? Nahhhh. At its recent “solidarity conference” at the swanky Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, the union’s leaders paraded a...

California’s Anti-Semitic Ethnic Studies Curriculum are a Manual for Future Left-Wing Activists

December 9, 2023 11:31 amDecember 11, 2023 4:01 pm

At what point do constitutional free speech protections cease to be protected? Yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is one threshold – but isn’t “yelling fire” taking place all across the country, on college campuses, in state Capitols, and even...

Liberation, Resistance, Intersectionality… A Critical Look at Existing Ethnic Studies Courses in California

May 15, 2023 7:42 amMay 16, 2023 9:03 pm

Many school districts in California have started teaching Ethnic Studies ahead of the state mandated timeline of 2025. This has come on the back of a multi-year movement to promote Ethnic Studies in K-12, a movement fraught with controversies and...

New Report: University Policies Fail to Protect Jewish Students from Antisemitism

December 16, 2022 8:30 am

What happened to the campus Chess Club, the Cinema Club or the Key Club which as a student-led organization, the club’s goal was to encourage leadership through serving others? Today on college campuses we see Berkeley Law for Palestine, the...