Ethnic studies becomes a graduation requirement in LAUSD

Beginning this academic year, and three years ahead of the state’s mandate, all incoming high school students in the Los Angeles Unified School Unified School District will have to complete an ethnic studies course in order to graduate.

“This is one step toward building a curriculum that better reflects the history and culture of California’s diverse community,” said school board President Jackie Goldberg at Thursday’s Curriculum and Instruction Committee meeting. “Ethnic studies provides many academic benefits. Young people get to learn about how people from their own and different backgrounds faced challenges and contributed to — and still contribute to — American society.”

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