California’s Assembly Bill 715 , which passed unanimously in the state Legislature, would create reasonable and appropriate guardrails against antisemitism in the state’s public K-12 classrooms – an important step in fighting the ongoing crisis that has made Jews the most-targeted religious group in America for hate crimes.

The bill is the product of remarkable consensus. The California Jewish, Latino, Black, and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) caucuses all collaborated to draft it, along with considerable input over months from the 310,000-member California Teachers Association (CTA).

Now, however, CTA is vehemently opposing the bill it helped write, claiming that, as a result of guidelines for instructional accuracy and objectivity, “teachers might feel constrained.”

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