Alliance for Constructive Ethnic Studies

03/07/2026

The California Department of Education is facing legal action brought by Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law & StandWithUs over alleged antisemitism in K-12 classrooms.
The complaint raises serious questions about how ideological narratives influence school culture.
This lawsuit highlights why keeping education grounded in learning, not politics, remains essential.

Two Jewish advocacy organizations have sued California and the state Education Department seeking to stop alleged antisemitism on K-12 campuses.

02/20/2026

TONIGHT!! Antisemitism is exploding in K–12 classrooms across California.
Please join us on February 24th at 8pm PST to learn about legal protections for students, including AB 715 and other laws, and how these can be used when antisemitism shows up in schools.
Register at zioni.st/aces

HOPE TO SEE YOU!! 🙏

03/10/2025

What can you do now?
Email the board to express your appreciation for Trustee Jen Jacobson and the work she does on behalf of your community. Let them know she represents you.Info Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QlXlIPw8T59itStWzmFgfKwmwi3DoBG3nITThO2XhCw/edit?usp=sharing

12/06/2022

URGENT! Time sensitive!

Please click here to send a letter to the CTC and Governor Newsom opposing this proposal. It is imperative that we stand together against infusing ideological agendas into our children’s classrooms. https://eqqfanfj.paperform.co/

03/01/2022

A warped, politicized, antisemitic curriculum has begun officially seeping into classrooms throughout California and the rest of the country. We need to tell leaders that this poisoning of students’ minds needs to stop. Please take a minute to write to our elected officials and SHARE WITH FRIENDS.

Take action! Please make your voice heard to remove the divisive ideological framework from the current draft of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. Submit the below letter to CA officials to push for a positive model Ethnic Studies for CA students.

01/19/2022

Our friends in Castro Valley need your help! ✅ Please click here to send your letter to the CVUSD Board and Superintendent and make your voice heard! https://q2lgt76y.paperform.co/

❗️ The Castro Valley Unified School District Board is planning to hire Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition (LESMC) to develop an Ethnic Studies Curriculum to comply with the state requirement. LESMC was founded by the same people who drafted first version of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC), portions of which the Californian legislators deemed too controversial, raising “concerns related to bias, bigotry, and discrimination.” Governor Newsom promised Californians that it would “never see the light of day” and state legislators wrote provisions in the Ethnic Studies bill to prevent this material from resurfacing in classroom curriculum.
Concerns with the LESMC:
🚫 The foundation of Liberated Critical Ethnic Studies is said to “challenge the traditional claims of the educational system such as objectivity, meritocracy, color-blindness, race neutrality, and equal opportunity.”
🚫 The LESMC’s foundational principle is that the US has always been and will always be a fundamentally racist nation. This approach is a step backwards from all of the progress and the sacrifices our country has made in breaking down barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination based on race.
🚫 The LESMC’s Teach Palestine Toolkit tells teachers that in order to teach their curriculum, they must “fly under the radar” when administrators or parents are not supportive of this content.
🚫 This curriculum contains militant proselytizing for overthrowing our system of government, uses a single world view of history, and marginalizes key historic leaders, like Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, and Thurgood Marshall, calling them “passive” and “docile.”
🚫 The proposal states that they will conduct teacher training, aid in course and curriculum development and implementation using the LESMC as a foundation.
🚫 By voting in favor of this proposal by the LESMC Coalition, the CVUSD Board would effectively allow this offensive material into our children’s classrooms, doing the opposite of their intention.
✅ Please click here to send your letter to the CVUSD Board and Superintendent and make your voice heard! https://q2lgt76y.paperform.co/ And please forward this to any other community members who also believe that bias and bigotry have no place in our K-12 classrooms.
📌 You can read the actual proposal that the school board is planning to approve here:https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/castrovalley/Board.nsf/files/CALMLR5B8041/$file/Copy%20of%20LESMC%20Proposal%201_2022.pdf
Thank you in advance for your support!

To urge CVUSD officials to reject the proposal from LESMC. - Powered by Paperform™

05/15/2021

The Federal government is proposing to infuse Critical Ethnic Studies into every History classroom in America by giving school federal grant money in support of this curriculum. Please submit a comment urging them to stop this proposed program. The attached link from FAIR gives a sample comment for you to use to make it very easy to do. Comments must be in by May 19.

https://www.fairforall.org/department-of-education-proposal/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=9c5070eb-5c6d-45b8-9df2-52606f9340f9&fbclid=IwAR0fnPIRvEYhNkZVDFqAB_2uXjO0yorI8Qgj5H_Kcq0__CC2WDrdCFDnUNM

Submit Comments on Proposed CRT Rules by May 19th The U.S. Department of Education recently proposed priorities that will give federal grant money to school programs that teach concepts of Critical Race Theory. If adopted, these priorities will fund programs that teach students the following divisiv...

05/12/2021

California is trying to infuse Critical Ethnic Studies into math curriculum. Please write to the IQC to oppose the politicization of math in California schools. Comments needed by noon Thursday, May 13.

Write to your CA state rep about the draft Math Framework.

04/30/2021

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and it’s a golden opportunity for everyone around the country to watch this great film - Far East Deep South.
Premiere Broadcast: May 4, 2021 @ 8pm Eastern Time
Streaming On-Demand: 5/4 – 6/3 at http://bit.ly/ARF_FarEDeepS

Charles Chiu and his family’s search for their roots takes them on an eye-opening journey through the Mississippi Delta, uncovering their lost family history and the racially complex experience of Chinese immigrants in the segregated South. With the help of local residents and historians, this Chinese American family comprehends the impact of race-based immigration policies on their family and the symbiotic relationship between Black and Chinese communities during the Jim Crow era.

Far East Deep South will also be available to stream on WORLDchannel.org, PBS.org and the PBS Video app beginning at time of broadcast on May 4 and throughout May in honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

03/18/2021

"Ethnic studies focuses on critiquing the many biases and blind spots of American institutions. Yet... ironically, it is institutionalizing its own set of uncritical narratives and biases."

"Individuals, movements and institutions can and often do have good ideas about some issues and bad ideas about others. Ethnic studies should help students see that complex reality, instead of simply replacing one set of biases with another."

Ethnic studies promoted some of the same destructive ideas my grandmother fought so hard against.

03/17/2021

Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board writes, "[California's] Ethnic studies wants to invert traditional American ideas of individual merit, opportunity and success. It imposes its own dominant narrative that interprets all social interactions through the lens of oppression..."

"If America’s traditional 'narratives' are designed to encourage social mobility and prosperity, California’s proposed Marxist narratives are designed to encourage intergroup conflict and perpetual upheaval in existing institutions. That’s explicit in sample assignments, such as drafting a 'manifesto' of demands for the Third World Liberation Front.”

A new curriculum rejects merit and sees oppression everywhere.