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11.17.20 IQC Meeting Update -
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On Wednesday, November 18:
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#SaveArabAmericanStudies
#ArabStudiesisEthnicStudies
****************************************************************************************************************************************Last Friday, the CA State Department of Education announced that Arab American studies has been moved to the appendix of the CA Model Ethnic Studies Curriculum (ESMC). This is a complete reversal from their commitment—at the August 2020 meeting of the Instructional Quality Commission—to include Arab American studies as part of Asian American studies curriculum.
The next meeting of the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC), where they will go over the current curriculum revisions, is November 18-19.
If the largest education system in the United States decides Arab-American Studies and ethnic studies are a “problem”—or even worse, succumb to a campaign that would brand any mention of Palestine in public schools as de facto anti-Semitic — we’re going to face a dire precedent. We need your help in ensuring Arab American Studies is included in Asian American Studies so our students don’t get shut out of the curriculum.
The IQC is accepting public comment until Friday, November 13. Please send a public comment and let them know what you think.
Here are the coalition demands:
· Include the Arab American lesson plan submitted to the California Department of Education by members of the original Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) advisory committee.
· Re-insert Arab American studies in its rightful place—within Asian American studies.
· Align all lesson plans to the guiding principles of ethnic studies, which are anti-racist, decolonial and liberatory.
· Reject debunked definitions of antisemitism that equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism
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