During a meeting that was moved online because people feared for their safety, the Los Alamitos Unified school board on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve a set of social justice teaching standards. The curriculum for a high school ethnic studies elective will come before the board in June. Developed by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice group, the social justice standards for K-12 educators are designed to help students embrace their own identities, avoid bias and respect people from different backgrounds. He was one of an estimated 100 protesters who showed up to oppose the new teaching standards, according to Nunez. During the meeting, school board President Marlys Davidson said seven professors from the UC Irvine education department wrote a letter expressing strong support for the social justice standards and ethnic studies elective.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 12, 2021 21:24 UTC