© Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCalifornia public and charter schools will be required to offer at least one ethnic studies course starting in the 2025-2026 school year.
The Golden State is believed to be the first in the US to institute such a mandate.
Public and charter schools in the state will be required to offer at least one ethnic studies course starting in the 2025-2026 school year.
Students will have to take the class on top of other standard gen-ed requirements in English, math, science and social studies.
The requirement can be completed through a school's existing ethnic studies class, a course approved by the University of California and California State University or a locally developed one.
© Website of Assemblyman Jose MedinaCalifornia Assemblyman Jose Medina in 2017
"Thank you Gov. Newsom for signing AB 101. The inclusion of ethnic studies in the high school curriculum is long overdue," Medina said in a statement. "Students cannot have a full understanding of the history of our state and nation without the inclusion of the contributions and struggles of Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans."
The model curriculum focuses on four historically marginalized groups and their contributions to American history, according to KTLA, including: African Americans, Chicanos and other Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Native Americans.
It also includes lesson plans on Jewish Americans, Arab Americans, Sikh Americans and Armenian Americans, who had lobbied against a similar earlier bill that had excluded them, the outlet reported.
According to the bill, the course must meet the following criteria:
- Be appropriate for use with pupils of all races, religions, nationalities, genders, sexual orientations, and diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, pupils with disabilities, and English learners.
- Not reflect or promote, directly or indirectly, any bias, bigotry, or discrimination against any person or group of persons on the basis of any category protected by Section 220.
- Not teach or promote religious doctrine.
The Los Angeles School District, the second-largest in the nation, had already voted last year to require an ethnic studies course a requirement by the 2023-2024 school year, KTLA reported.
Newsom additionally signed legislation requiring public schools and colleges to offer free menstruation products in all restrooms.
Just ask political puppet-idiots like Jose Medina and Gavin Newsome. They know what business leaders really want.
(No wonder China and Russia are quietly laughing their collective asses off at us, as they watch the West not-so-slowly self-destruct to please the tech and financial elites and their plans for world domination via the Great Reset, etc.)