Varun HukeriSpecial to Valley NewsCalifornia’s state education board unanimously approved a model ethnic studies curriculum Thursday, March 25, after years of divisive debate, multiple drafts and more than 100,000 public comments about the proposal.The nearly 900-page curriculum focuses on “historically marginalized peoples” – particularly racial minorities – and calls on students to study the “imperialism, settler colonialism and genocide, both cultural and physical” of those peoples.The curriculum made national headlines early in March after Discovery Institute scholar Christopher Rufo, who researches “woke” ideology in public education, released details of a draft lesson plan about pre-Columbian American history. The lesson plan called for the “decolo
