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Posted in: Opinion | Tags: California, Israel/Palestine, National, Opinion, Oregon, Teachers Unions
How can we combat rising antisemitism in K-12 schools? Here are the steps
By Evan Bernstein | | The Jerusalem PostTo 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, Israel/Palestine, National, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Teachers Unions
The Kindergarten Intifada
By Abigail Shrier | | The Free PressThere is a well-coordinated, national effort between teachers, activist organizations, and administrators to indoctrinate American children against Israel.
Posted in: Opinion | Tags: Opinion, Washington
No doubt CRT is taught in our schools
By Liv Finne | | Whitman County GazetteIn 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.
Posted in: Opinion | Tags: Maryland, Opinion
What are your children being taught? The answer may surprise you.
By Lindsey Burke | | Stars & StripesMontgomery 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: News, Washington
New evidence shows harmful Critical Race Theory is taught in Washington public schools
By Liv Finne | | Washington Policy CenterSome 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: News, Pennsylvania, Teachers Training
Black Nationalist Gets $20 Million to Promote ‘Segregation’ in Public Schools
By Francesca Block | | The Free PressSharif 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.
Posted in: Opinion | Tags: California, Opinion, Santa Ana
Language in some ethnic studies programs reminds trustee of her childhood in Soviet Union
By Maya Phillips | | San Diego Union TribuneWhen 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.
Posted in: Opinion | Tags: Arizona, California, Israel/Palestine, National, New Jersey, New York, Opinion, Oregon, Teachers Unions
Antisemitism is exploding — because we’re teaching hate in public schools
By Nicole Neily | | New York PostThe ideological seeds of extremism were planted long before freshman orientation - and usually paid for with public tax dollars.
Posted in: Opinion | Tags: Opinion
Asian American history can be scarce in schools. States are trying to change that.
By Troy Aidan Sambajon | | The Christian Science MonitorWhat 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.
Posted in: Opinion | Tags: Israel/Palestine, Opinion, Teachers Unions
Teachers unions are fueling anti-Israelism. Here’s how
By Mika Hackner | | Times of IsraelGroups like BAMN and Educators for Palestine use the unions as vehicles to push radical curricula in K-12 schools across the US.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, Israel/Palestine, News, Santa Ana
‘The Jewish Question’: Discrimination against students at school
By The Focus Project | | JNSThe 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, Israel/Palestine, News, Santa Ana
‘Liberated’ ethnic studies courses challenged amid allegations of antisemitism
By John Fensterwald | | Ed SourceState judge is asked to bar classes created during meetings that allegedly should have been open to the public.
Posted in: News | Tags: History, National, News
Undercover with Liberated Ethnic Studies
By Brandy Shufutunsky | | White Rose MagazineLiberated 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, Israel/Palestine, News, Oakland, Teachers Unions
What did Oakland teachers talk about during the Palestine teach-in?
By Ashley McBride | | The OaklandsideSeveral teachers spoke to The Oaklandside about their lessons which included a comic book, videos, and read-alouds about conflict in the Middle East.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, Israel/Palestine, News, Oakland, Teachers Unions
About 100 Oakland teachers held unsanctioned ‘teach-in’ to discuss Palestinian cause
By Anser Hassan | | ABC7 Bay AreaAcross the Oakland Unified School District on Wednesday, teachers voluntarily took part in a teach-in about the Palestinian cause.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, Israel/Palestine, News
Hamas Attack Reveals the Political Agenda of Ethnic Studies within the University of California
By Lee Ohanion | | Hoover InstitutionAfter the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, it is obvious that the ESFC should have nothing to do with course content.
Posted in: News | Tags: Israel/Palestine, New York, News
NYC pre-K teacher pushes anti-Israel agenda with lessons about ‘land theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing’
By Deirdre Bardolf | | New York PostNYC 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, History, Israel/Palestine, National, News, Teachers Unions
Unmasking Hatred in Schools: Anti-Semitism in Ethnic Studies
By Jany Finkielsztein | | CAMERAA 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.”
Posted in: Opinion | Tags: Opinion
Beware the Spread of ‘Liberated’ Ethnic Studies in California – and Beyond
By Mike Zhao | | RealClearEducationThose 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, Israel/Palestine, News
“Liberated” Ethnic Studies: Jews need not apply
By Daniel Rubin | | Ethnic and Racial StudiesDespite 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, Israel/Palestine, News, Teachers Unions
Antisemitism and the Politics of Ethnic Studies in CA’s K-12 and Higher Education Classrooms
By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin | | Institute for the Study of Contemporary AntisemitismIn 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: News, Teachers Unions, Virginia
REVEALED: School ‘toolkit’ in Virginia that shows how to secretly teach CRT and promote BLM to ‘advance racial justice’
By Andrea Cavallier | | Daily MailVirginia Education Association (VEA) released a toolkit that pushes an initiative called the Black Lives Matter At School Week of Action.
Posted in: Opinion | Tags: Opinion, Teachers Unions, Virginia
How a Teachers Union Promotes Critical Race Theory
By Editorial Board | | Wall Street JournalA toolkit tells teachers how to push radical ideology on children despite Gov. Youngkin’s ban.
Posted in: Opinion | Tags: Minnesota, Opinion, Survey
Stop the bait and switch on Ethnic Studies!
By American Experiment | | American ExperimentA 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, IES, Israel/Palestine, News, Survey
Survey: how local school board candidates see ethnic studies
By Ryan Torok | | Jewish News of Northern CaliforniaA 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.
Posted in: Opinion | Tags: California, History, IES, Opinion
California schools should opt for inclusive ethnic studies
By Bill Honig (former California State Superintendent, 1983-93) | | Ed SourceInclusive 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.
Posted in: News | Tags: California, Israel/Palestine, News
Factsheet: Liberated Ethnic Studies in California
By StandWithUs | | StandWithUsInterest 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.
