Every San Francisco Unified School District school, K-12, will now be doing Black studies framework and curriculum starting 2022-2023 school year. The Black Studies curriculum will include University of California approved courses that will introduce students to
- Concept of race
- Racial identity
- African and African American history
- Equity
- Systemic Racism
Commissioner Stevon Cook said in a statement,
The Euro-centric focus of the American education system and other American institutions has perpetually framed the history of Black people in America as either enslaved, discriminated against, or suffering under the social-ills of poor health, poverty and over-incarceration...The broader impact of African innovations such as math, science, engineering, sea exploration and astrology that informed much of western civilization has never been sufficiently taught to students in traditional public schools.
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