In May 2021, Parents Defending Education (now Defending Education) joined a coalition of 27 organizations opposing AB 101, a California bill that would make an ethnic studies course a graduation requirement in all public and charter high schools in the state. The bill is based on highly controversial ethnic studies model curricula, would violate California’s constitutional guarantee of equal treatment and Articles 3 and 4 of the state Education Code, and would divert large amounts of taxpayer money away from helping students recover from pandemic learning losses in math, science, and English.
Read the full coalition letter below:
