The Battle Over California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum

Since 2016, the California Board of Education has been in the process of including Ethnic Studies in K-12 school curriculum and establishing the subject as a requirement for all California public high school students. What might surprise many, however, is that the backlash against the contents of California’s Ethnic Studies courses has primarily come from Pro-Israel Jewish organizations. Read Naomi Friedland’s New Voices (2022) article.