
California educational leaders push CRT lessons that praise Marxist who looked up to Osama bin Laden
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California public school administrators are leaders at the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, which is embedded with critical race theory.
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. Hannah Grossman is an Associate Editor at Fox News Digital.
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."