On Jan. 30, PAUSD Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education Dr. Guillermo Lopez moderated the second ethnic studies community meeting alongside Gunn and Paly teachers on the district’s Ethnic Studies Committee. Although the virtual meeting was advertised as a “community input session,”...

On Sept. 12, the PAUSD school board recommended that district staff implement the soon-to-be required ethnic studies course in fall 2025 as a graduation requirement for the Class of 2029. Although this recommendation extends the district’s initial time frame by a year, PAUSD will implement the course...

On August 22, the bill to make Ethnic Studies a graduation requirement was delayed in the state legislature. Citing the huge controversy around the bill, its author, California Sate assembly member Jose Medina, has opted to put it on the “two year plan,” postponing the vote on the bill without killing...