A committee of the University of California’s Academic Senate narrowly voted not to advance a proposal that would force every high school to teach anti-Semitic “critical” ethnic studies if they wanted students eligible for the university system.
Under a law called AB 101, California already requires all public high schools to teach ethnic studies, but requiring high schoolers to have taken such a course in order to even apply to a UC school — the largest college system in the nation — would impact high schools across the country, as well as private schools in California.
The version of ethnic studies required by UC would also be more extreme than the kind required by AB 101, which was somewhat toned down after Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed an earlier version because of its anti-Semitism.
UC ethnic studies scholars openly opposed a “guardrail” placed in that final bill that…
