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Board approves two supplemental novels with instructional safeguards
Summary
Trustees approved making the graphic novel March and The Nickel Boys available to teachers after a committee review and antibias input; The Nickel Boys was recommended with an instruction stipulation and teachers are to consult study guides.
The Ventura Unified School District board voted Aug. 27 to make two supplemental novels available to teachers after committee review and consultation with the district’s antibias work group and parent advisory groups.
Sarah Gluck Perez, teacher on special assignment who leads the review committee, presented the committee’s recommendations. The first recommendation was to add the graphic-novel version of March for English-language arts and history courses in…
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