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May 8, 2025

California Schools’ Ethnic-Studies Initiative Threatens Jews

Officials attack parents who complain.

When the new school year begins in the fall, California high-school students will be required to take at least one class in ethnic studies before graduating. The model curriculum for the subject, issued by the state Department of Education, involves a highly ideological form of instruction, meant to “address institutionalized systems of advantage.” And Jewish parents in California are especially worried, as Kayla Bartsch explains:

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