A student's presentation for an ethnic studies class at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy Miramar Campus in 2019. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Ending years-long and often divisive debate over ...

Students head to class on the first day of school at Palo Alto High School on August 14, 2024. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. Since 2021, California schools have grappled with creating a new ethnic ...

California education officials have agreed to remove a Mayan-based chant and another spiritual invocation from the state’s nonbinding 800-page model ethnic studies curriculum in an out-of-court ...

Fed up with what they describe as concessions to “right-wing interest groups” and “pro-Israel lobbyists,” the originators of California’s ethnic studies model curriculum for high schools are now ...

California’s Board of Education is expected Thursday to pass the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum for high schools, after nearly four years of heated debate, division and rewrites. The curriculum was ...

Ethnic Studies (ES) is proliferating in public schools in blue states. In 2017, Oregon was the first state to require the creation of Ethnic Studies curriculum for grades K-12. Washington state ...