California State University Fullerton (CSU-Fullerton) announced it suspended its partnership with Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District on Oct. 17 due to the latter’s ban on teaching critical race theory (CRT).
Until then, CSU-Fullerton had been providing student-teachers from the university to aid K-12 education. The suspended partnership came six months after Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified became the first Orange County district to ban CRT in a 3-2 vote on April 6.
In a statement on the issue to the District, Cal State Fullerton wrote, "The placement of student teachers in [PYLUSD], at this time, would place us in conflict with our goals to prepare teacher candidates with pedagogical approaches rooted in diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, race and gender theories, cultural-linguistic studies, social-emotional well-being, and tenets of Critical Race Theory.”
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