Opinion: Ethnic studies, not budget cuts, the solution to what’s ailing California education

by Andrew Jolivette, The OpEd Project March 26, 2025March 25, 2025

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Building in Washington, D.C., is home to the U.S. Department of Education. President Donald Trump, via an executive order, has moved to dismantle the agency that was created during the Carter administration nearly half a century ago. (Thomas Hawk/Flickr, CC BY-NC)

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION cuts half its staff as President Donald Trump vows to wind the agency down, a move that will lead to higher student dropout rates, and California already has the highest dropout rate in the country. Ethnic studies is the solution that can save all of our children — American Indian, White, Black, Latinx, immigrant, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Arab American, Asian American, rural, urban, rich and poor.

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