Gay History, SOS March DC, etc.: Post-Vacation update
Even away on the West Coast, the madness of education keeps chugging along.
It’s good to be back after a restful week in Los Angeles–and a brief weekend in Palm Springs (It looks pretty bad that a teacher would enjoy themselves so much, but who cares?!) Just wanted to update the Neighborhood on some tidbits I ran into along the way, as well as info for the Save Our Schools March this Saturday inWashington:
- As soon as I touched down in Burbank, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 48, which requires California schools to include the achievements of gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered individuals in social studies curricula, with a similar ban on any school material deemed offensive to said groups. On Sunday July 17. the Los Angeles Times, not exactly a bastion of conservatism, published a