SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California Department of Education’s Instructional Quality Commission is reviewing a new curriculum framework for history and social sciences that many believe is inaccurate and misleading.

Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Bill Evers recently penned an editorial for the Orange County Register that outlines numerous obvious flaws and ideological propaganda included in the new curriculum.

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The most egregious examples are also cited in a resolution passed by the County Chairmen’s Association of the California Republican Party last weekend that calls on state officials to rethink the curriculum.

Evers is among a wide variety of education experts, students, parents, and religious leaders who weighed in during a public comment period on the draft framework that ended in February, many of whom believe the changes are driven by ideology rather than true history.

“The framework is filled with present-minded paraphrases of the uplifting rhetoric of the Progressives of early 20th-century America, but where is the Progressives’ devotion to eugenics and their opposition to African Americans getting an academic education?” Evers questioned.

“Why is Progressivism portrayed only as compassion, love, and goo-goo reform? Where are the centralization, the Imperial Presidency, the cult of efficiency, and the rule of experts that are integral to progressivism?”

Evers pointed to the framework’s treatment of The New Deal, and Japanese-American internment camps as evidence of blatant bias.

“The New Deal’s federal spending during the Great Depression is mentioned, but where is the fact that such spending was concentrated not on areas of greatest recent economic decline, but rather on areas where the New Deal political coalition was in trouble? The New Deal programs of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and National Recovery Administration (NRA) are mentioned, but where is their intentional purpose – to create government-sponsored monopoly schemes for whole industries?” he wrote.

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“These monopoly arrangements were designed to suppress competition, cut production, and fix prices. The NRA and AAA were consciously influenced by ‘corporativism,’ the industrial policy involving official governmental sponsorship of industry cartels and labor unions found in fascist Italy.”

“The internment of Japanese-Americans in the 1940s is mentioned, without analysis, in one place, but not in other appropriate places, and no mention is made of the endorsement of that internment by Earl Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt and a host of bien-pensant intellectuals and policymakers,” Evers wrote.

The curriculum review has also sparked conflicts between groups representing minorities in California over issues like the caste system in India, the description of South Asia, and other issues. An alliance of conservative Hindu groups want to minimize mention of the caste system, for example, while other South Asians think it’s important.

“The stereotyping of any group of people is wrong, but rewriting history and censoring it selectively cannot be the way to get rid of stereotypes, as it negates the collective experiences of non-Hindu religious and cultural communities throughout South Asian history,” Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan wrote for the Huffington Post.

The squabble between Hindus and South Asians is particularly heated in California because half of the 2.5 million Hindus in the U.S. live in that state, according to The New York Times.

Tom Adams, the deputy superintendent of the California Department of Education, told the Times numerous other ethnic groups, including Filipinos, Koreans and Mexicans, have also complained about how their people are covered in the new history framework.

“There have been a lot of groups that are eager for us to include their history in the framework,” he said.

Regardless, the Instructional Quality Commission is expected to review the revised curriculum at its May 19 meeting, and send the framework to the state board of education for approval.

The framework will guide text books, testing and other materials for history and social sciences in grades K-12

“Although the standards that the commission approves will be written into California’s textbooks, because the state is so large, textbooks that are made based on its framework are often used elsewhere as well,” the Times reports.

The recently adopted resolution by the County Chairman’s Association of the California Republican Party contends that “whole sections of the history curriculum framework read as if they are pamphlets written by anti-globalization street protesters carrying giant papier-mache heads – with passages speaking of class conflict, exploitation, the power of multi-national corporations, ‘proliferating slums,’ ‘McDonaldization’ of the world, creating ‘homogenized cultural experiences,’ promoting ‘an American consumer culture,’ and ‘displacing local cultures with a single homogenizing global fashion.’”

“(I)t is a necessity that the California State Board of Education fix the errors, fill in the gaps and remove the ideological indoctrination in the History-Social Science Curriculum Framework,” the resolution reads. “To do any less would be a disservice to teachers and students; an insult to parents and taxpayers; and a travesty of political bias rather than a framework for learning historical truth.”