Did the California Community Colleges implement anti-racist policies because they believed they resulted in the best pedagogy, or because politicians told them to?

This article doesn't say, but it does appear from other reporting that the community colleges implemented these policies without influence from state politicians.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-12/communit...

That means it is not an analogue to the Texas scenario, where the university censured people because the politicians said to.