In an effort to stop the LA project, a group of Jewish parents and teachers has sued the Los Angeles school district, its teachers’ union, and a corporation called the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Institute (LESMCI), formerly known as Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium. We’ve been tracking the development of California’s ethnic studies model curriculum for a while. You can see some of our past coverage inTo recap: California tried for several years to develop and impose an ethnic studies curriculum. LESMCI, the people behind the 2019 model curriculum rejected for anti-Semitism, is now marketing its version of ethnic studies privately to school districts. The LA school district has not made public the ethnic studies materials on which its teachers are being trained.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 12, 2022 21:51 UTC