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California’s Hundreds of Thousands of School Curricula

California’s Hundreds of Thousands of School Curricula
A teacher at Rosa Parks Elementary School reads students a book about earthquakes in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2019. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Lance Christensen
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“How many different kinds of curricula are there in the state’s public school system?” This is a regular question concerned Californians ask when discussing education policy, especially with how politicized our K–12 classrooms are these days. The answer, however, is not what many think it is.

Lance Christensen
Lance Christensen
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Lance Christensen is the vice president of California Policy Center, a nonprofit focused on reducing public sector barriers to prosperity. He has two decades of public policy and political experience working in and out of the state legislature, the Department of Finance, educational nonprofits and as a candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2022.
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