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Hate crimes against Asian Americans reached record levels in 2021. A recent study revealed a whopping 339% increase compared to 2020. Of particular note, New York City saw a staggering 343% increase in these crimes. In 2022, things are not improving, and government officials deserve some blame.

Tammi and her guests will debate if corporate America’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are failing or helping Black employees.SUBSCRIBE to FOX …

A revised version of California’s proposed new mathematics framework omits some controversial parts from the first draft but …

Parents, community members, teachers and education policymakers should work together at the local level to determine their own mode of knowledge acquisition for ethnic studies.

(The Center Square) – The Black Mountain Middle School in Poway Unified School District presented a “Wheel of Power” to be used as part of suggested professional development training at

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When it comes to tolerating people who hold unorthodox ideas, we haven’t made much progress since the time of Galileo.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has again changed its definition of racism amidst public backlash, after the organization’s CEO, …

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Ethnic studies must be treated as a rigorous intellectual endeavor that is rooted in empirical testing, not dogmatic presumptions.

Californians for Equal Rights Foundation sued the state of California and others, challenging two particular affirmations in the ethnic studies model curriculum.

A Minnesota public school district informed a law firm representing an organization of concerned parents that a completed government records request would cost more than $901,000.An attorney at Mohrman, Kaardal,

When it comes to tolerating people who hold unorthodox ideas, we haven’t made much progress since the time of Galileo.

Math education should not be about pushing a divisive ideology, but about promoting knowledge and excellence and preparing our students for our modern economy.

In March 2021, the California Department of Education approved the final version of the ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. In October 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill No. 101 into law, making California the first state to require an ethnic studies class for graduation. In this episode,…

A poll by Pew Research Center revealed that 73% of people are against colleges using race or ethnicity in the admissions process. In 2016, Gallup reported that 70%, including 50% of black people, believe colleges should use merit, not race or ethnicity, when considering college admission.

Thuy Thi Nguyen, our nation’s first Vietnamese-American college president and leader of California’s Foothill College, was recently ousted by the college’s Academic Senate in an unprecedented vote of no confidence. The Senate, which gives recommendations to the District Board of Trustees on academic…

The University of Georgia (UGA), “the birthplace of public education in America,” recently posted a tenured faculty cluster hiring notice for its Integrative Precision Agriculture program. The program, a cross-disciplinary undertaking between the Engineering and Agricultural & Environmental Sciences…

A Minnesota public school district told concerned parents that it could cost upwards of $901,121.15 to complete a government records request.

Coming from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, over a dozen public commenters spoke passionately about the divisive nature of CRT and its influence on California’s ethnic studies curricula.

Esther Valdes Clayton, a conservative and trustee of the Coronado Unified School District Board, stood by her claims of racism, even after contradictory information came to light.

Williamson County parents heard from past and present educators, as well as other parents who spoke out against critical race theory in schools at the CRT101 event.

Grassroots organizers managed to defeat a ballot measure that would have reinstated the ability to enact affirmative action programs.

The opponents of CRT come from all backgrounds — they’re parents and community members who share a concern over the ideas being taught to their children.

Demography isn’t destiny when it comes to immigration and politics.

Steve and Kristen talk to Frank Xu and Dr. Wenyuan Wu from Californians for Equal Rights, the group that took down Prop 16, despite the overwhelming oddsFOLL…

POWAY (KUSI) – A growing coalition of parents at the Poway Unified School District held a rally and press conference to demand that the school board hold an open community meeting to discuss the classroom curriculum. The parents allegedly say that the district had not been transparent about the use…

A mandatory ninth-grade ethnic studies curriculum at a school district in California’s Monterey County pushes dark and controversial …

At the height of globalization in the 1990s and early 2000s, many political economists—including Susan Strange, Philip G. Cerny, and Nita Rudra—argued that forces of economic and cultural neoliberalism were steadily eroding traditional nation-states and welfare societies. In developed countries, bac…

The district has live-streamed meetings since some board members received death threats. In a statement, the board said “CRT is not being taught in Poway Unified.”

Over 6,000 non-tenured University of California (UC) lecturers are threatening to go on strike again. This follows an October 12th collective bargaining offer from UC, which the lecturers criticize as insufficient to satisfy their demands for better pay and job security. Adjunct faculty from UC San…

The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation was apparently canceled by the San Diego Union-Tribune after it tried to place a voter education ad that criticized critical race theory, according to a press release by the nonpartisan and nonprofit organization. The Union-Tribune stated that the group…

Attorney General Garland Defends His Memo to the DOJ To Go After Parents at School Board Meetings

Pilot study of San Diego County school districts finds many dominated by “underrepresented minorities” eschew these controversial concepts.

“Parents are realizing that something is deeply wrong, and even if they don’t understand the meaning behind this movement, they sense that it does not have their children’s best interests at heart.”

The Biden Justice Department’s move to stop increasing threats against school board members and teachers would stifle free speech and deter public discussion about school policies, critics warn.

Meanwhile, a non-profit called Californians for Equal Rights and several individuals sued the state and education officials over the ethnic studies curriculum model.Filed in San Diego County Superior Court, the non-profit claims the model favors religions over others and wants references to an Aztec prayer removed.

Many heard earlier this year about a surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans. Liberals and Democrats have tried their hardest to forge a connection between the horrific hate acts suffered by Asian Americans and the evil of “America’s oldest sin” of racism. This notion soared to front-page news…

The plaintiffs are asking the court to issue an injunction prohibiting the prayers from being used in the curriculum and in public schools.

Three California parents are suing to prevent the state’s public schools from praying to Aztec deities who have been worshipped with human sacrifice – arguing the action is unconstitutional.

The curriculum asks students to repeat the ‘In Lak Ech Affirmation’ – a chant which invokes Aztec gods who have been worshipped with human sacrifice.

Parents opposed to critical race theory (CRT) in California classrooms are outraged over accusations from school boards that …

According to reports, three California parents are suing to stop the state’s public school system from encouraging students to recite prayers to Aztec gods, which have been worshipped using human sacrifices. Their argument is that doing so violates both the U.S. and California constitutions. “The is…

A group of parents is challenging a California ethnic studies curriculum that asks students to chant and pray to Aztec gods.

Parents reportedly pleaded with the California Superior Court to remove chants and prayers to Aztec deities from the state’s curriculum.

‘Maybe there are a few isolated incidents of disruption . . . but that’s not even 1 percent of all concerned parents,’ one parent organizer told NR.

If schools can’t make your kids pray to Jesus, then they can’t make them pray to the Aztec gods of human sacrifice in the name of dismantling oppressive white supremacy, either. That’s the claim being put forth in the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation new lawsuit against the California Board…

Parents in California are challenging a curriculum that forces their children to pray to Aztec gods.

Californians sue to stop Aztec prayer in public school ethnic-studies classrooms

Kabul’s rapid collapse upon the withdrawal of U.S. troops teaches us at least two things about culture. Firstly, different cultures undergird vastly different forms of government. After 20 years of direct U.S. influence in regime-building, Afghanistan has failed to establish its own democratic gover…

Wenyuan Wu argues that racial preferences have not been beneficial to ‘underrepresented’ groups.

Currently, nine states prohibit colleges and universities from practicing race-conscious admissions. That number may soon become ten if a new bill in the North Carolina legislature is successfully adopted. Public opinion polling shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose racial prefere…

Dr. Wu is Executive Director of Californians For Equal Rights. Today’s conversation centers upon “Critical Race Theory” (CRT) and its immediate and long-ter…

The North Carolina General Assembly is considering a new bill (Senate Bill 729) which seeks to outlaw racial discrimination and racial preferences in public affairs. The bill’s language is identical to similar proposals in California, Washington, Michigan, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arizona, Colorado, and…

Chanting the Aztec prayer “In Lak Ech Affirmation” in Spanish or English is included in California’s model ethnic studies curriculum as a suggested activity break.

Three San Diego parents have teamed up with a watchdog group to sue the State of California over …

Shannon Watkins interviews Wenyuan Wu about why race-based admissions should be opposed. Wu is executive director of Californians for Equal Rights, which is …

(The Center Square) – Three parents and the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, (CFER), a civil rights group, have sued the state of California over a public school curriculum that

Group fighting what it calls critical race theory in schools filed a religious objection

Three San Diego parents are suing the State of California for including Aztec prayers in a state-approved Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC)

Parents say the prayer in the curriculum violates California constitution, which is stricter on separation of church, state than U.S. Constitution.

A group of parents in California sued the State Board of Education Friday over a proposed new “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum” that would have public school students chanting affirmations to Aztec gods and invoking an ancient Nigerian Yoruba religious prayer.

Three San Diego parents are suing the State of California for including Aztec prayers in a state-approved Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC)

On July 13, the Governing Board of California Community Colleges (CCC) voted to approve two new requirements—one adding ethnic studies as a graduation requirement for students seeking an associate’s degree and another mandating the incorporation of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and anti-rac…

By giving unwarranted emphasis to a small, ideologically driven group opposed to any disagreements over a specific type of ethnic studies, the article conveniently ignores three important facts.

Trustees said their aim Tuesday was to have an open, transparent dialogue on California’s new ethnic studies curriculum — but passions among opponents ran high.

As board members critique new ideas on teaching history and culture, Truth in Education critiques the board.

As the discussion on critical race theory continues across the country, several organizations are trying to keep the latest radical, toxic, and Marxist infiltration from the classrooms of California.

We must hold policymakers accountable, not to a political agenda, but to our students who have been failed by a long history of policy errors and systemic incompetence.

Recently, the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) at the California Department of Education decided to postpone the release of the controversial and ideological 2021 Mathematics Framework to December 2021 at the earliest.

In the 2020 election, Californians voted down Proposition 16 – a measure that would repeal the state constitutional amendment that prohibits preference or di…

The bill would promote “neo-Marxist ideologies” and “indoctrinate students into narrow political beliefs and political activism,” groups argue.

A group rallied outside of the Poway Unified School District headquarters during a board meeting Thursday to protest new courses that will be offered to students in the fall.

Californians for Equal Rights Foundation has started a petition to keep CRT out of the Poway Unified School District. We speak with CFER Foundation President Frank Xu about their petition and their efforts to keep it out of all California schools.

Claim PUSD is teaching ‘critical race theory’

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A rally was held today by parents and others in the community to oppose San Diego Unified School District’s proposed ethnic studies program, also known as Critical Race Theory. The “Californians for Equal Rights” foundation has called for action, along with San Diego Unified paren…

Mary Margaret Olohan A parent-led rebellion against Critical Race Theory is storming school boards across the country and demanding accountability for

A rally to oppose the San Diego Unified School District’s proposed ethnic research program was held today by parents and others in the community.

“If the district is really about uniting the kids, then get this course out of the way.”

A collection of nonprofits in California filed a civil rights complaint last week alleging discrimination against San Diego’s largest public school district for

Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER), along with its five partner organizations, filed a formal discrimination and civil rights violation complaint against the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) regarding unlawful, discriminatory critical race training of teachers and employees. Th…

Former NFL player Eugene Chung claims he was told that he was 'not really a minority' when interviewing for a coaching job this offseason

CRT101 at Liberty Hall, Franklin TNSpeakers:Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuckDr. Wenyuan Wu @wu_wenyuanMother of 2nd Grade Student @Dear_Mr.GoldenDr. Beth Meyer…

California State Board of Education recently approved the high school ethnic study curriculum, which incorporates critical race theory in multiple subjects. …

Why Ellen failed & Critical Race Theory Panel GUESTS: Dr. Wenyuan Wu and Sam Hoadley Brill & MIC DROP: Ricky Gervais vs Chris Rock

I spoke with Wenyuan Wu about her work with the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, their work in defeating Prop 16 and now their push for Civil Rights…

The mass shooting in Atlanta on March 16, which took the lives of six Asian women among the …

Wenyuan Wu: “A cheap reboot in the woke camp is to dissociate their ground efforts from CRT. This unsolicited reaction is a non-denial denial and a demonstration of our effectiveness.”

A comprehensive analysis of the support of more than 100 university scholars and academics found the claims are wholly unsubstantiated.

A Daily Wire (DW) investigation states that they found the “Stop AAPI Hate” movement as having ties with a far-left group that’s reportedly pushing policies that are also anti- Asians.

Directrice exécutive de l’association Californiens pour l’égalité des droits, Wenyuan Wu voit cette victoire comme le signe d’un changement profond à l’œuvre dans l’opinion, mais qui se heurte à la résistance de puissants groupes de pressions formés par les médias, des…

The rising tide of crimes against Asian Americans has motivated many to engage in political activism. However, politically active Asian Americans have bifurcated into two camps: woke elites and everyone else.

A collection of California nonprofits filed a civil rights complaint last week alleging discrimination against San Diego’s largest public school district over its embrace of the controversial “critical race theory.”

The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) has drafted a plan that would incentivize private business owners to …

At least two journalists who worked for Chinese state-controlled media came to America as visiting students and became organizers for a progressive activist group behind the "Stop AAPI Hate" movement, running outreach efforts to shape the political opinions of first-generation Chinese-Amer…

President of Californians For Equal Rights: “this is one of the best countries in treating people equally and giving everyone a fair chance to succeed.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom has picked a new attorney general for the state. But the nominee is known …

Earlier this month, the Legal Insurrection Foundation (LIF), in collaboration with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, offered an eye-opening webinar.

Horrific headlines have recently proliferated across social media and the news industry depicting Asian Americans as victims of …

The legacy media has a new narrative: that Asian-Americans are the victims of systemic racism fueled by white supremacy, brothers-in-arms with black Americans in a struggle against an oppressive country.

I was so happy and not a little surprised to see printed this Opinion piece, “Identity politics does more harm than good,” March 21, by Wenyuan Wu, as it certainly doesn’t fit the dominant politica…

This addiction to examining all social issues through the prism of race is harmful.

Glenn reads from an article in the Wall Street Journal, “The Woke ‘Model Minority’ Myth” by William McGurn, which explains how Asian-Americans either are dismissed by the far left OR ‘sacrificed at the altar of equity” because they undermine the progressive idea of white, systemic racism that prevents all others from achieving success…

For progressives, Asian-American achievement is an embarrassment.

Lately, we at the National Association of Scholars have been reminded of this simple truth: what starts in academia doesn’t stay there. As the old adage goes, “culture is downstream of campus.” If it did stay there, we could leave the ivory tower in a self-contained quarantine while ignoring most of…

I spent my early years believing in a euphonious lie that modern China was beautifully multicultural, with all its 56 ethnic groups living as one family in utter adoration of the motherland. This patriotic belief, consolidated through years of Marxist and Maoist training, was slightly shaken when I …

When we divide our education, media, and legislation based on race and other immutable identities, we become more vulnerable to hatred and self-hate.

San Francisco’s Board of Education voted unanimously last October to set aside longstanding merit-based admissions at Lowell High School for one year. This decision was allegedly due to the pandemic, but the board had a bigger target in mind. As Katy Grimes now reports in the California Globe, the b…

Three organizations that have for several months been raising concerns about the corrupt development of California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, today called on state officials to investigate further unethical and potentially illegal activities by the curriculum drafters. “We are writing to exp…

San Francisco’s controversial Board of Education voted this week to end merit-based admission to Lowell High School, a top academic high school, and the

Californians for Equal Rights executive director Wenyuan Wu joins to talk about an anti-Asian discrimination case just dropped under the Biden administration and California’s proposal to teach a critical race theory-based ethnic studies curriculum to K-12 students.

On Feb. 3, the Biden administration dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that alleged the Ivy League school was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants. The Californians for Equal Rights (CFER) called the DOJ’s decision “unsubstantiated,” “a systematic roll back of civil rights protections,” and that it “has committed great injustice to the American people with its acquiescence to race preferences.”

Californians for Equal Rights is criticizing President Joe Biden’s choice for Deputy Secretary of Labor, who they say did not solve the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD) fraud problem.

The Irvine City Council has unanimously passed a resolution to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in city hiring and contracting. Frank Xu of CFER talks about the nature and implications of this resolution.

Research shows however that racial preference policies create a mismatch of academic qualifications between minorities receiving preferences and the rest of their entering class, and the academic disparities continue throughout college.

Prop. 16 was defeated, even by liberal California, 57.23% to 42.77%. Izumi noted that Prop. 16 was campaigned against and defeated largely by Asian Americans, who merely wanted to prevent public universities from discriminating against Asian applicants with higher scores, instead favoring lower-scoring minorities. But now they have to fight for this.

In a letter to the UC Board of Regents, CFER’s executive director, Wenyuan Wu argues that “Dropping empirically designed tests in UC’s process of selecting incoming students is a politicized and misguided attempt to cover up true causes behind achievement and opportunity gaps.”

For those ‘equity’ advocates, ‘equity’ is nothing more than a fashion accessory to make them look attractive, hiding the failures of Departments of Education to improve the academic outcomes of our most vulnerable students.” In California, Wenyuan Wu, executive director of Californians for Equal Rights, opposes the attack on gifted students as a “race to the bottom.”

It’s not just white students in the firing line, but high performing Asian-American children, too; is it a bold move in the name of racial fairness or just an anti-intellectual assault from the ideology of critical race theory?

CFER Honorary Chair and American Civil Rights Institute founder Ward Connerly sounds off on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’

In August 1996, at the height of a 6-million-dollar campaign coalition to preserve race-based affirmative action over against Proposition 209, Dr. Shirley Weber spoke at the Million Man March statewide conference organized by Dr. Manulana Karenga for a revolutionary agenda of black empowerment. At t…

Since California is a majority-minority state, they assumed passing Proposition 16 would be a snap. They need to get out more. They’ll find Californians cannot be so easily pigeonholed.

In 1996, Californians passed by a wide margin a citizens’ ballot initiative, the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), also known as Proposition 209, that disallowed use of race and sex preferences by state and local governments in hiring, public contracting, and admissions to public universiti…

Ward Connerly for fighting a winning battle once again, defeating affirmative action and Proposition 16. Proposition 16, on the November ballot, would have repealed Prop. 209 and divided Californians by making discrimination legal in the state. Connerly put together an amazing team creating Californians for Equal Rights.

Golden State voters — and especially immigrants — overwhelmingly rejected racial preferences.

Californians rejected racial preferences even more soundly this year than in 1996. Will the Supreme Court reverse itself next?

Proposition 16, the identitarian measure aimed at reviving race-based affirmative action in California, was crushed on the November ballot by 57.2 percent of voters (over 9.4 million votes).

A majority voted against repealing the state’s ban on affirmative action.

Democrats may need to rethink their strategy as the class complexities and competing desires of Latino and Asian-American demographic groups become clear.

Almost everyone is disappointed, frustrated, or angry about the election results—Republicans, because at this writing they appear to have lost the presidency amid widespread reports of voting—er, irregularities; Democrats, because they suffered an unexpected but major shellacking in the House and ap…

Voters send a message to the Supreme Court on race-based preferences.

One of the biggest hiccups in the recent election was the emphatic 14-point defeat of Proposition 16 in deep blue California.