From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Sun Jan 17 10:24:08 2021 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:24:08 -0800 Subject: Help save Arab American Studies - comments due this Thursday, Jan 21, 2021 Message-ID: Tell CA Dept. of Education to make Arab American Studies an integral part of the state?s Model Ethnic Studies Curriculum. The CA Dept of Education and Superintendent Tony Thurman have backtracked on commitments to include Arab American studies in the Model Ethnic Studies Curriculum. Instead, they have caved to a well-funded right-wing campaign aimed at gutting Ethnic Studies, erasing the Arab American content and any mention of Palestine. Comments due by Jan 21, 2021. What you can do: 1) Sign petition 2) Send your own letter to: California Department of Education Instructional Quality Commission (CDEIQC) ethnicstudies at cde.ca.gov Mr. Tony Thurmond, State Superintendent of Public Education superintendent at cde.ca.gov Ms. Linda Darling-Hammond, President of the State Board of Education ldh at stanford.edu Emails only: ethnicstudies at cde.ca.gov , superintendent at cde.ca.gov , ldh at stanford. edu Ask the CA Dept of Education and the CDEIQC to : 1) Re-empower experts in the field of Ethnic Studies to decide on revisions to the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) that align with the principles, values, and pedagogy of Ethnic Studies. 2) Put Arab American Studies-including Palestine-back where it belongs, within the Asian American Studies section of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, and 3) Approve an ESMC that is anti-racist, decolonial and liberatory-that centers the voices and experiences of communities of color and their struggles for liberation. Ask that your letter be part of the public comments. More information: ? Defend Ethnic Studies ? Save Arab American Studies ? Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights letter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: