The bill appears to target the concept of systemic racism, banning teaching that "an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, bears responsibility for acts committed in the past by other individuals of the same race or sex."

The district denied finding any evidence that the eight cases discovered this month at Jensen Elementary in Lawndale were passed on to others in the building or at home.

Student privacy and equity could be two casualties of educators' Herculean efforts to hand out millions of laptops and tablets to connect families after the COVID shut down, an advocacy group says.