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Curriculum battles, liberated ethnic studies, and antisemitism in K-12 classrooms.
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Ethnic studies has become one of the most contentious battlegrounds in American education, particularly the "liberated" or "critical" strand that critics say excludes Jewish experiences and promotes anti-Israel content. This section tracks the lawsuits, legislative fights, and district-level curriculum decisions from California to New York.
Our coverage includes the Santa Ana Unified litigation, Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium disputes, and the broader push to include antisemitism education alongside other forms of ethnic and racial bias instruction.
The Bay Area's Jewish advocacy landscape looks like a mix of establishment institutions and grassroots activists. In practice, it's one federation network operating at two speeds — with the JCRC on the coalition track and BAJC and BACCA on the more aggressive one.
Staff Writer · July 17, 2026
Tye Gregory is the CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Bay Area (JCRC Bay Area). A profile of his tenure, the JCRC's role in California ethnic studies fights, and the controversies over free speech and progressive coalition politics.
Staff Writer · July 15, 2026
In response to JLN's request for ethnic studies curriculum, PAUSD has released the following materials: On September 17, 2024, PAUSD released the following: Mexican+Migration+1930s+Student+Materials_2…
Staff Writer · March 31, 2025
Pursuant to a January 21, 2025 Public Records Request to San Francisco Unified School District ("SFUSD"), the district responded with this letter on March 3, 2025 . The letter indicates that the ethnic studies curriculum is being…
Mark L. Javitch · March 4, 2025
February 28, 2025 UPDATE: Links Contained in Curriculum Provided Here : The curriculum for ethnic studies and curriculum related to Israel and Palestine was recently released by San Mateo Union High School District in response to a request…
Staff Writer · February 28, 2025
The California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum ("MC") teaches that Jews are dominant oppressors of other non-Jewish minorities. But MC proponents say that the MC “doesn’t actually say that Jews are bad.” True, Ethnic Studies does not…
Mark L. Javitch · February 23, 2025
Part 1 explained how JCRC censored Jewish moms' comments explaining that they don't feel JCRC represents them, especially on several key issues. Part 2 outlined the disagreement between the Jewish moms and JCRC regarding Ethnic Studies. I…
Mark L. Javitch · February 18, 2025
Part 1 explained how JCRC censored Jewish moms' comments explaining that they don't feel JCRC represents them, especially on several key issues. Part 2 outlined the disagreement between the Jewish moms and JCRC regarding Ethnic Studies. In…
Mark L. Javitch · February 18, 2025
Read Part 1: "Out of Touch" JCRC Censors Jewish Moms' Feedback Part 1 reported that JCRC recently censored at least three Jewish moms' Instagram comments that criticized JCRC's policies, while at the same time claiming to conduct a…
Mark L. Javitch · February 18, 2025