House GOP Targets Berkeley Schools in Antisemitism Hearing

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Berkeley Unified School District superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel testified before Congress on Wednesday as part of hearings examining how K-12 school districts are handling anti-semitism in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks and Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza. Republicans say the education leaders invited to testify – from Berkeley, New York City, and Montgomery County, Maryland – have failed to respond to antisemitic incidents in their schools. But Ford Morthel rejected allegations that antisemitism is “pervasive” in Berkeley, and said that the district is indeed addressing issues as they come up. We’ll discuss the hearings, the politics behind them, and how they fit into Republicans’ broader efforts to reform education in the U.S. Guests: Dana Goldstein, reporter covering education and families, New York Times Sara Hossaini, reporter, KQED Radio Bianca Quilantan, higher education reporter, Politico Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.3	K through 12 schools across the country are struggling with how to talk about
0:55.0	Gaza and Israel. There are now dueling civil rights complaints of anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian
1:01.6	treatment in Berkeley Unified School District. Meanwhile, a congressional committee called
1:06.7	Berkeley School Superintendent Anikia Ford-Mthel, to testify alongside leaders from New York
1:12.1	City and Montgomery County, Maryland. We'll hear what happened at the hearing yesterday,
1:16.9	discussed the politics behind them, and how they fit into Republicans' broader efforts
1:21.6	to reform education in the U.S. That's coming up next after this news.
1:43.3	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Schools may be the defining arena of the current culture wars. Long before the Hamas attacks of October 7th and the withering Israeli military response,
1:49.0	schools across the country were straining to keep up with student activism on one hand,
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