High school ethnic studies would be required in California under Riverside lawmaker’s bill
A Riverside legislator’s bill seeks to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement in California
The bill introduced by Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside, a former ethnic studies teacher, has passed the Assembly floor and moved to the state Senate.
It would require the roughly 1.7 million public high schools students in the state take a semester of ethnic studies in order to graduate, beginning in the 2023-24 school year.