Advocacy Day 8-6-24

Bills being opposed
SB 1277 – Puts the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, founded and run by pro-Israel organizations, in charge of training public school teachers and developing curricula on genocide education.
SB 1287 – Seeks to bully university and college students into silence by threatening them if they violate vague new codes of conduct. It is designed to suppress pro-Palestine action on our campuses.
AB 2918 – Proposes an additional layer of expensive state oversight that shifts crucial decisions about curriculum development from the capable hands of teachers and ethnic studies educators to an ill-defined group of “stakeholders” with little or no knowledge of ethnic studies and an anti-Palestinian bias.
AB 2925 – would extend pro-Israel advocates’ strategy by trying to control anti-discrimination training on campuses, focusing this training on targeted groups based on a law enforcement database.
These bills would use our state tax dollars to build support for Israel and prevent unbiased education on the oppression of Palestinians.