Public schools in both Philadelphia and Los Angeles are facing scrutiny over allegations that educators used classroom and student activities to push politics on controversial topics, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The cases have raised fresh concerns among advocates about the infiltration of political activism in education.The House Education and Workforce Committee found in Philadelphia that district curricula endorsed "ideology justifying violent resistance and legitimize radical groups that incite antisemitism." Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, the school district substantiated 11 allegations involving teachers at Canoga Park High School, finding that they promoted one-sided views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish Insider reported.
The complaints were brought by the North American Values Institute, or NAVI."NAVI is very active in tracking what extremists are doing in education.And so, when we started seeing Code Pink do webinars discussing sort of what they were up to in Los Angeles County schools, we paid very close attention," NAVI Government Affairs Director Clifford Smith told Fox News Digital. FEDS OPEN PROBE INTO ANTI-ISRAEL NYC TEACHERSCanoga Park High School teachers were accused of bringing their own political opinions into the classroom.
(Myung J.Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)"When we saw that they were making plans to basically directly insert, you know, very politicized...
far, far, far-left propaganda directly in the classrooms, we wanted to act because we knew that, you know, at least according to the rules of the school district, that shouldn't happen," Smith said. The Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) investigation found that high school teachers had been giving one-sided lessons on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including a lesson on the "martyrs of Gaza," according to Jewish Insider.The outlet noted that the investigation also revealed that teachers had been recruiting students to join the ant...