Various Jewish groups are criticizing a school board in the San Francisco Bay Area for unanimously approving a contract with an ethnic studies group that they say promulgates antisemitism and “anti-Israel narratives.” The pro-Israel education group StandWithUs first broke the news that the Hayward Unified School District Board of Education unanimously approved a $35,395 contract with the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium (LESMCC) during the district’s July 27 board meeting. StandWithUs noted that the LESMCC was established by those who crafted and supported “the deeply problematic and widely criticized first draft of California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC).” The...
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