The Brouhaha Over Books in Public Schools

Sheila Arcelona: Assistant to Steve Phillips, San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education Commissioner and co-author of resolution calling for more than half of books read by students in SFUSD to be by non-white authors. Arcelona substituted at the last minute for Keith Jackson, co-author and Commissioner Danise Chandler: Chairwoman of the English Department, George Washington School, San Francisco Unified School District Maria Hernandez: Psychology Major at Cal State Northridge, she is organizing the first Central American High School Conference on higher education and cultural identity; she was a student, and now mentors, at Camino Reale High School (LAUSD) Lillie Morrison: 9th Grader at George Washington High School, San Francisco Unified School District Robert Waldron: Author of "Thomas Merton: In Search of His Soul" and "Epiphany, Poetry and the Inner Life" to be published this year; he wrote an Op Ed published in the Boston Herald entitled: "What the Dickens is Going on with City's Core Reading List" teacher of literature at Boston Latin School Author of "Thomas Merton: In Search of His Soul" and "Epiphany, Poetry and the Inner Life" to be published this year; he wrote an Op Ed published in the Boston Herald entitled: "What the Dickens is Going on with City's Core Reading List; teacher of literature at Boston Latin School Robert Scholes: Author of "The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline" and Professor of Humanities at Brown University, Providence Rhode Island Francisco Lobaco: Legislative Director for the ACLU in California Richard Hertz: Richard Hertz Consulting

topic: Vote Against AB 1700