After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year.
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CALIFORNIA GOV. SIGNS LAW MANDATG PRO-GAY CURRICULUM
In California schools, teachers do and mt say the word "gay" as well as lbian and transgenr lsons about nonnformg exprsns of genr. * california lgbt curriculum *
Gay pri vios shown a Glendale third-gra classroom have add an tense lol chapter to a natnal bate over how and when lsons on genr inty and sexual orientatn should be broached public episo unfold wh the disclosure that a teacher at Jefferson Elementary had shown her stunts gay pri vios and had asked for the district’s help asssg which of four specific vios would be appropriate for classroom e. California law requir stunts learn and be provid stctnal materials that expla the “role and ntributns” of among others, “lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins.
”Remend rourc clu materials om the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn early are California stunts supposed to learn about issu related to genr exprsn and inty? But state guil note that send-grars, by studyg the stori of “a diverse llectn of fai, ” cludg those “wh lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr parents and their children... “We e the acronym LGBT to scribe the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny, ” acrdg to GLAAD.
Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * california lgbt curriculum *
“Sexual orientatn scrib a person’s endurg physil, romantic, and/or emotnal attractn to another person (for example: straight, gay, lbian, bisexual). Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay or bisexual.
The materials were veloped s ago — and have evolved over time — by the nonprof group to bat racism and whe Learng for Jtice materials ed Glendale do not clu the gay pri vios, but the entirety of the lsons offered by the anizatn are meant to promote diversy and cln, cludg empathy for stunts who don’t nform to genr norms. A new Florida law — which crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, sayg margaliz LGBTQ people — forbids classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra. Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.
”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.
In California schools, teachers do and mt say the word "gay" as well as lbian and transgenr lsons about nonnformg exprsns of genr. * california lgbt curriculum *
” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.
Nearly 9 10 Amerins know someone who is gay or lbian; 3 10 know someone who is transgenr (Pew Rearch Center, 2016). G., the legalizatn of same-sex marriage and adoptn by same-sex upl and the ary’s cln of openly gay and lbian recs). Five years later, after multiple challeng to the law, the California State Board of Edutn approved a statewi social studi curriculum amework that clud among required topics the evolutn of gay rights and the ntributns of lbian and gay figur history.