“I am not going to take this recall attempt lying down," Newsom said. “I’m going to fight because there’s too much at stake in this moment.” Fourteen California Black Democratic elected officials serving at the federal, state, county and city government levels joined hands in a virtual show of support for Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday during a news briefing on Zoom. In one-minute statements, each one explained why she or he is standing behind Newsom as a Republican Party-led effort to […]
The clinics, being hosted in partnership with the Sacramento Fire Department, will be Friday, March 19, and Friday, March 26, both at 7:30 p.m. at the Delany Center Parking Lot.
George Washington High School in San Francisco, California, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Race and ethnicity can be tricky topics to discuss, especially in the classroom. But the California Department of Education had no idea how heated the debate would get when it set out to draft a model ethnic studies curriculum for high schools throughout the US state.
The process took over two years, multiple versions, and drew nearly 100,000 public comments.
In one ongoing conflict, Jewish and pro-Arab groups have accused each other of discrimination and trying to silence each other’s histories.
Several authors of the original draft have demanded their names be stripped from the final version, saying it’s watered down and substandard. Their draft was criticized for taking a left-wing, biased and a politically charged view of history, including terms like “hxrstory” and “herstory.” It defined capitalism as a system of oppression and drew complain
A model ethnic studies curriculum for California high schoolers has been in the works for over two years, in an era of tense racial reckoning in the United States. The final draft doesn’t meet everyone’s standards, but proponents say it is a good starting point.
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