Lance Christensen, Vice President of Education and Public Policy at California Policy Center, responds to Assemblymember Corey Jackson's thinly-veiled attacks on concerned parents as "white Christian nationalists" in remarks made in the California Assembly's Education Committee on 4/26/2023.
Presenting AB 1078, which would remove local school boards' jurisdiction over the curriculum in their district, Asm. Jackson declares that there is a nationwide effort by "white Christian nationalists" to ban books from school libraries.
His proposed solution?
To take away concerned parents' voices in their local elections, and require that any school district seek State Board of Education approval before removing "any instructional material" from their curriculum, regardless of how inappropriate that material may be deemed.
Rather than run local governments through the State Bureaucracy, California Policy Center believes it is in the best interest of children, parents, and educators that curricula should remain in the full control of a local governing body.
California Policy Center also strongly discourages the use of straw man attacks to push any agenda, especially one so radical that it would ultimately take away the rights of parents to decide what their children learn in schools.
To urge your representative to vote NO on AB 1078, visit www.californiapolicycenter.org/take-action.
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1. This video has been shortened to its current time, while preserving the integrity of the words spoken. The full hearing is nearly 5 hours long, and can be found at www.assembly.ca.gov/media.
2. Assemblymember Jackson is briefly muted near the end of his remarks to respect the privacy of the intern he thanks by name during the hearing. …...more
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