May 24, 2023
Screenshot/Santa Ana Unified School District/YouTube Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) Superintendent Jerry Almendarez said Tuesday that the board would not be removing any "narrative" from its new ethnic studies curriculum, despite complaints of its anti-Israel rhetoric. SAUSD approved two courses, "Ethnic Studies: World Geography" and "Ethnic Studies World Histories," in April, which have been criticized for promoting the idea that Israel is a "colonial empire" and guilty of the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians. The SAUSD board held a regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, and after giving out several end-of-the-year awards to faculty and students, Almendarez addressed concerns about the recently passed ethnic studies curriculum, according to recordings of the meeting on the district's YouTube account. (RELATED: California School District Approves Curriculum Accusing Israel Of 'Ethnic Cleansing,' 'War Crimes
