The San Francisco Unified School District has finally settled on a temporary ethnic studies curriculum for the 2025-26 school year, a resolution that has left some advocates of the program more satisfied than other critics who originally called for it to be reevaluated.

And with less than two weeks until the first day of classes, many teachers, administrators and parents still don’t know much about what the new course will look like.

The San Francisco Board of Education on July 29 approved the district’s usage of Gibbs Smith Education’s “Voices: An Ethnic Studies Survey” as its curriculum for the upcoming school year.

Meanwhile, the district will conduct an audit of its previous curriculum, which came under fire in recent months by a vocal segment of parents and community members and

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