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Faced with a lawsuit and an unfavorable ruling from a Superior Court judge, the San Francisco school board voted on Tuesday to rescind a controversial January resolution approving the renaming of 44 district schools. The reversal, approved 6-0 at a regular board meeting conducted on Zoom, means that Dianne Feinstein Elementary School, Abraham Lincoln High School and others that had attracted considerable controversy during the renaming process will remain unchanged for now. The board said it would revisit the renaming effort only after students returned to school five days a week, likely in t...

By law, the 11-member body, responsible for policy-making decisions affecting K-12 schools in the state, must approve the curriculum by the end of the month, a deadline the legislature already delayed one year. It plans to do so on the third day of its March meeting, which began Tuesday; the meeting will be held virtually and will include a comment period during which members of the public can speak for up to one minute. Jewish organizations are expressing a wide range of opinions about the textbook-length curriculum in its close-to-final form. Most are commending revisions they say transform...

Jesse Gabriel Provides Update on Ethnic Studies Curriculum Screenshot of the webinar California State Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, a Democrat, provided the Jewish community with an update on the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) during a February 24 webinar. Speaking with Tye Gregory, executive director of the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), Gabriel began the webinar by stating that a recent article in Tablet about the ESMC was inaccurate and out of context. “We had a deeply problematic first draft,” he said, arguing that the first draft contained “a...

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