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Such a curriculum would “marginalize Jewish students and fuel hatred and discrimination against the Jewish community.”
“This bill could and should have been stopped at the legislative level and must not be forced on the Jewish community to fight in each of California’s 1,300 school districts.
By Sean Savage
Charles Jacobs, president of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, told JNS that ethnic studies and racial-justice curricula as now constructed are "poisonous to American society, as they promote tribalism and racism."
Every Jewish Caucus member supported the bill in the Assembly vote.
Rossman-Benjamin was the first to expose how the discipline of Critical Ethnic Studies is deeply antisemitic and anti-Zionist.
A comprehensive analysis of the support of more than 100 university scholars and academics found the claims are wholly unsubstantiated.
Most profoundly concerning for the Jewish community is the portrayal of Jews, filtered through the lens of Critical Ethnic Studies, as ‘white’ and ‘privileged’.
Several members of the original ESMC advisory committee have been using false claims about the benefits of ethnic studies to ensure that Critical Ethnic Studies is taught in classrooms throughout the state.
“This entire process goes to the heart of what is wrong with Critical Ethnic Studies.”
The third draft curriculum is now being reviewed by the State Board of Education and is likely to be approved in March with few changes.
The veto enables the Department of Education to reconsider its ill-conceived plan to produce a divisive program of ethnic studies.
Governor Newsom stated, "We are united in our resolve to make sure the advisory committee draft is only that, a draft, that will be substantially amended... It will never see the light of day.”
“School board members asked to vote on the resolution are not shown the original draft curriculum, and not informed about the enormous outpouring of criticism it engendered or that a CDE process is well underway for the curriculum’s redesign."
