The Pajaro Valley Unified School District’s board of trustees voted Wednesday night to schedule a special meeting in March to discuss the district’s ethnic studies curriculum.
That curriculum has been the subject of intense debate since the PVUSD board decided in September 2023 not to renew its contract with a consulting firm that had helped design and implement the curriculum after the state mandated that schools offer ethnic studies by 2025.
The curriculum was designed with help from Community Responsive Education (CRE), which is run by Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, a professor in the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University. It’s currently being taught in PVUSD high schools…