Exclusive | San Francisco schools accused of hiding controversial ethnic studies course from parents

San Francisco Unified School District may be in legal trouble over a mandatory “ethnic studies” course that critics say is packed with radical ideology and insulting messages about Jewish and Asian Americans — as an advocacy group claims the divisive lessons were illegally hidden from parents.School officials refused to make the two-semester course, called Voices, available to parents before it was hastily rammed through at an April 28 Board of Education meeting, according to a lawsuit filed by Friends of Lowell Foundation, which advocates for academic merit at San Francisco public schools.California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story The complaint filed at San Francisco Superior Court further alleges that the district raided a special fund intended for arts, music and other enrichment programs to pay for a $7.3 million history and social studies overhaul that included the controversial course for high school freshmen.Cash-strapped SFUSD — which is facing school closures and deficits exceeding $25 million — shelled out at least $400,000 to ethnic studies consultants who peddle lessons on defunding the police, “land acknowledgments” and tearing down capitalism, The Post previously reported.“Everyone needs to scrutinize this curriculum – and that did not happen here.

SFUSD has never fully reckoned with its long record of discrimination against Asian Americans,” said Frank Cheung, secretary of Friends of Lowell Foundation.“Rather than restoring public trust, the District has once again chosen to circumvent the very laws designed to ensure transparency and accountability,” Cheung added.

Critics say the ethnic studies course hammers ninth-graders with far-left political ideology about anti-capitalism and oppression and doesn’t even c...