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New foundation launched to spotlight ‘divisive’ liberated ethnic studies curriculum

By Austin Gergens | January 2, 2025 | Chalkboard News
A new organization is focused on providing an alternative to liberated ethnic studies, a controversial curriculum that draws on critical race theory components. Its founder says it’s intended to spotlight race-focused instruction. Ahead of the holiday season, California businessman Mitch Siegler launched the THINC Foundation, which stands for transparency, honesty, and integrity in the classroom.

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Tam Union parents scrutinize ethnic studies plan

By Keri Brenner | December 19, 2024 | Marin Independent Journal
Some Tamalpais Union High School District parents repeated a call this week to postpone the district's controversial new ethnic studies course.

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What Are Your Kids Really Being Taught In School?

By Tom Jordan & Mitch Siegler | December 12, 2024 | Tom Jordan Live
Are schools teaching unity or division? Mitch Siegler, Founder of the THINC Foundation, joins Tom Jordan Live to reveal how "liberated ethnic studies" sneaks divisive ideologies into classrooms, replacing character and equality with resentment and identity politics—and what parents can do to reclaim their children's education.

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New foundation launched to end ‘Marxist’ takeover of ethnic studies

By Peter Cordi | December 10, 2024 | Washington Examiner
A new foundation launched on Tuesday seeks to warn parents about the hard-left “hijacking” of ethnic studies in K-12 education and hopes to facilitate intellectual diversity.

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With New Survey Data, THINC Foundation Launches to Expose “Liberated” Ethnic Studies in K-12 Classrooms

By THINC Foundation | December 10, 2024 | THINC.org
Today we are proud to announce the official launch of the THINC Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Transparency, Honesty, and Integrity in the Classroom by advocating for inclusive rather than "Liberated" Ethnic Studies (LES) in K-12 curricula.

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How can we combat rising antisemitism in K-12 schools? Here are the steps

By Evan Bernstein | November 4, 2024 | The Jerusalem Post
To address these challenges, our communities must hold all schools accountable to provide Jewish students with a safe learning environment and teach all students tolerance instead of hate.

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The Kindergarten Intifada

By Abigail Shrier | October 31, 2024 | The Free Press
There is a well-coordinated, national effort between teachers, activist organizations, and administrators to indoctrinate American children against Israel.

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No doubt CRT is taught in our schools

By Liv Finne | October 17, 2024 | Whitman County Gazette
In 2021, the Legislature passed, and on May 5th that year Gov. Jay Inslee signed, Senate Bill 5044 to require the teaching of “...equity, cultural competency, and dismantling institutional racism in the public school system.” This is the academic description for Critical Race Theory.

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What are your children being taught? The answer may surprise you.

By Lindsey Burke | October 17, 2024 | Stars & Stripes
Montgomery County Public Schools went out of its way to caveat its promotion of the toxic ideology of critical race theory. The district — the 14th largest in the country with more than 160,000 students — put out a statement on CRT in which, as the kids would say, the words “established legal theoretical framework” are doing all the work.

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New evidence shows harmful Critical Race Theory is taught in Washington public schools

By Liv Finne | October 16, 2024 | Washington Policy Center
Some media outlets and left-leaning activists maintain that harmful Critical Race Theory is not being taught in Washington public schools, but new evidence has emerged showing that CRT will be part of two upcoming teacher-training conferences.

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Black Nationalist Gets $20 Million to Promote ‘Segregation’ in Public Schools

By Francesca Block | October 16, 2024 | The Free Press
Sharif El-Mekki envisions a world where ‘all black students are taught by same-race teachers.’ He is backed by the Gates Foundation, NBC Universal, Nike, and the Bezos Family Foundation.

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Language in some ethnic studies programs reminds trustee of her childhood in Soviet Union

By Maya Phillips | October 8, 2024 | San Diego Union Tribune
When I read the Santa Ana Liberated Ethnic Studies Curriculum for the first time in September 2023, it brought back childhood memories from growing up in the Soviet Union.

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Antisemitism is exploding — because we’re teaching hate in public schools

By Nicole Neily | October 6, 2024 | New York Post
The ideological seeds of extremism were planted long before freshman orientation - and usually paid for with public tax dollars.

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Asian American history can be scarce in schools. States are trying to change that.

By Troy Aidan Sambajon | September 14, 2024 | The Christian Science Monitor
What should students in the United States learn about Asian and Asian American culture and history? With hate crimes on the rise, more states are turning to classroom lessons to help foster tolerance and understanding.

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Teachers unions are fueling anti-Israelism. Here’s how

By Mika Hackner | August 19, 2024 | Times of Israel
Groups like BAMN and Educators for Palestine use the unions as vehicles to push radical curricula in K-12 schools across the US.

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‘The Jewish Question’: Discrimination against students at school

By The Focus Project | June 30, 2024 | JNS
The call for a violent uprising is not a mere political slogan; it is a global movement seeking to justify incitement through rhetoric and create an environment that normalizes crimes.

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‘Liberated’ ethnic studies courses challenged amid allegations of antisemitism

By John Fensterwald | June 30, 2024 | Ed Source
State judge is asked to bar classes created during meetings that allegedly should have been open to the public.

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Undercover with Liberated Ethnic Studies

By Brandy Shufutunsky | February 15, 2024 | White Rose Magazine
Liberated Ethnic Studies activists are well connected, highly organized, and deeply committed to establishing a radical pedagogy that seeks to undermine the liberal order by using our public school system as a vehicle to normalize their ideology.

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What did Oakland teachers talk about during the Palestine teach-in?

By Ashley McBride | December 7, 2023 | The Oaklandside
Several teachers spoke to The Oaklandside about their lessons which included a comic book, videos, and read-alouds about conflict in the Middle East.

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About 100 Oakland teachers held unsanctioned ‘teach-in’ to discuss Palestinian cause

By Anser Hassan | December 6, 2023 | ABC7 Bay Area
Across the Oakland Unified School District on Wednesday, teachers voluntarily took part in a teach-in about the Palestinian cause.

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Hamas Attack Reveals the Political Agenda of Ethnic Studies within the University of California

By Lee Ohanion | November 7, 2023 | Hoover Institution
After the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, it is obvious that the ESFC should have nothing to do with course content.

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NYC pre-K teacher pushes anti-Israel agenda with lessons about ‘land theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing’

By Deirdre Bardolf | November 4, 2023 | New York Post
NYC pre-K teacher Siriana Abboud offers social media guides on how to talk to 4-year-olds about "land theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing" and has referred to Israel as a "fascist ethnostate" online, concerning some parents and educators.

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Unmasking Hatred in Schools: Anti-Semitism in Ethnic Studies

By Jany Finkielsztein | October 17, 2023 | CAMERA
A group of educator-activists promoting racial grievance and Marxism aim to turn American school children into foot soldiers for their cause. Under the banner of the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies (CLES), they seek to present American society through the paradigm of oppressors and oppressed – imbuing students with an antagonistic view of America as a “settler-colonial state.”

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Beware the Spread of ‘Liberated’ Ethnic Studies in California – and Beyond

By Mike Zhao | September 12, 2023 | RealClearEducation
Those of us who have suffered the unspeakable horrors of Marxist ideology tend to develop a keen sense of danger that stems from our understanding of the far Left. The rhetoric of “class struggle,” “critical consciousness,” demonization of the bourgeoisie (or, in today’s parlance, “the privileged”), and Manichean notions of the oppressed versus the oppressors arouses traumatic memories.

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“Liberated” Ethnic Studies: Jews need not apply

By Daniel Rubin | April 6, 2023 | Ethnic and Racial Studies
Despite increasing antisemitism in the U.S., there continues to be strong resistance to teaching about Jews and antisemitism in the high school ES classroom. This article analyzes the potential arguments for the continued exclusion of Jews in ES and whether Jews have a place within its framework.

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Antisemitism and the Politics of Ethnic Studies in CA’s K-12 and Higher Education Classrooms

By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin | March 23, 2023 | Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
In 2013, only 1% of California’s high schools offered a course in Ethnic Studies. By 2025, a mere dozen years later, 100% of the state’s public and charter high schools are supposed to be offering, and all of its students required to take, a course in ethnic studies that’s likely to contain explicit and implicit antisemitic content, almost guaranteed to incite bigotry towards Jewish students and the Jewish community.

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REVEALED: School ‘toolkit’ in Virginia that shows how to secretly teach CRT and promote BLM to ‘advance racial justice’

By Andrea Cavallier | March 9, 2023 | Daily Mail
Virginia Education Association (VEA) released a toolkit that pushes an initiative called the Black Lives Matter At School Week of Action.

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How a Teachers Union Promotes Critical Race Theory

By Editorial Board | March 8, 2023 | Wall Street Journal
A toolkit tells teachers how to push radical ideology on children despite Gov. Youngkin’s ban.

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Stop the bait and switch on Ethnic Studies!

By American Experiment | November 1, 2022 | American Experiment
A top goal of Gov. Tim Walz and his allies in the Minnesota legislature is to politicize our schools through the insertion of a radical form of ethnic studies into the curriculum from kindergarten through twelfth grade. But you wouldn’t know it listening to them. Their sales pitch for this radical agenda is a classic bait and switch.

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Survey: how local school board candidates see ethnic studies

By Ryan Torok | October 26, 2022 | Jewish News of Northern California
A recent survey of candidates for local school boards across California sought their views on the teaching of ethnic studies and other contentious issues, including whether they supported the “liberated” ethnic studies curriculum that has caused concern among pro-Israel and Jewish groups.

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California schools should opt for inclusive ethnic studies

By Bill Honig (former California State Superintendent, 1983-93) | June 26, 2022 | Ed Source
Inclusive ethnic studies programs that adopt these principles inspire all students to embrace their own and others’ cultures, develop their individual potential, appreciate our common humanity and continue the important work of advancing America’s quest for a more perfect union.

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Factsheet: Liberated Ethnic Studies in California

By StandWithUs | October 8, 2021 | StandWithUs
Interest groups in California are relentlessly trying to exploit the state's K-12 ethnic studies graduation requirement as a platform for antisemitism, anti-Israel propaganda, and other forms of bias. Read on to learn more about how these "liberated" ethnic studies groups are violating California state policy regarding ethnic studies.

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