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In this Tuesday, May 17, 2016 photo, Executive Director Korean American Forum of California, Phyllis Kim poses for a photo at the Galleria Market in Koreatown district of Los Angeles. Kim pushed for inclusion of Asian comfort women in World War II in the curriculum. How do you teach a history of the world in a state where nearly two-thirds of students are Latino or Asian, many from freshly immigrated families? That's the dilemma facing a California panel charged with establishing a history and social studies framework for the state's 6.2 million public school children. On Thursday, May 19, 2016, the Instructional Quality Commission is scheduled to vote to forward, or not, a new teaching framework to California's Board of Education. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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