Capistrano School Board is Diversifying its Libraries

Part of a serial shows up on the wall of a Budapest metro train March 4, 2005 as an exhibition opened today in the Budapest underground about the work of an artist who has translated the horror of the Holocaust into a comic book novel. Pictures from Art Spiegelman's "Maus," in which the New York-based artist draws Jews as mice and Germans as cats in a black-and-white interpretation of his own parents' survival of the Auschwitz death camp, have gone on view on two metro lines. Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images

The Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) is adding two books to its curriculum that support the district’s plans for a cultural proficiency program.

“The recommended books underscore the importance of the interconnectivity of marginalized and understudied populations in both history and literature,” says a CUSD report. “The additional titles will support an inclusive and equitable curriculum that will provide students with diverse perspectives from Black, Indigenous and People of Color, women, and marginalized characters and authors.”