How California Is Embracing Mandatory Racial-Injustice Study for All of Its 1.7 Million High Schoolers

How California Is Embracing Mandatory Racial-Injustice Study for All of Its 1.7 Million High Schoolers
A High School senior student attends a remote class in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif., on Aug. 14, 2020. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
John Murawski
RealClearInvestigations
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California has struggled for five years to create a politically palatable “ethnic studies” curriculum that would teach high schoolers how systemic racism, predatory capitalism, heteropatriarchy and other “structures of oppression” are foundational to American society.

Now, after more than 82,000 public comments, and four major rewrites, the state Board of Education is expected to approve the latest version next week, clearing the way for lawmakers to make a semester-long course in the material a graduation requirement for all of California’s 1.7 million high school students.

John Murawski is an award-winning journalist who writes for RealClearInvestigations. He previously covered artificial intelligence for the Wall Street Journal and spent 15 years as a reporter for the News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) writing about health care, energy, and business. At RealClear, Murawski reports on how esoteric academic theories on race and gender have been shaping many areas of public life, from K-12 school curricula to workplace policies to the practice of medicine.
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