California public school leaders – including an elected school board member, senior administrators and ethnic studies teachers – are behind a “liberation” consulting agency whose curriculum glorifies communism, including one activist who expressed support for Osama bin Laden, according to a Friday report.
“These agendas can damage the United States internally by instilling hostile and inaccurate views of American democracy into school kids, erroneously portraying our democratic system as fundamentally racist, violent, and oppressive,” the Institute for Liberal Values said in its report. It blasted the curriculum’s “radical anti-American and anti-Western ideas.”
Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium (LESMCC) – used in numerous California districts – is being led by Oak Grove school board member – Dr. Taunya Jaco, San Lorenzo’s assistant superintendent – Tracie Noriega, and Samia Shoman – who oversees curriculum at San Mateo Unified school district. Two public school ethnic studies educators – Guillermo Gomez and Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona – are also leaders at the consulting agency, according to its website.
LESMCC was established to develop an ethnic studies programs for local school districts after the California State Board of Education mandated that all students learn about “historically marginalized peoples which are often untold in U.S. history courses.”
The Institute for Liberal Values found the curriculum “glorifies militant Marxist ‘role models,'” such as “the leader of a paramilitary Marxist organization responsible for over 130 bombings in U.S. cities and Maoist activist Yuri Kochiyama.”
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Kochiyama said, “I consider Osama bin Laden as one of the people that I admire. To me, he is in the category of Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, all leaders that I admire.”
She made the remarks…
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