$2,000,000
Total Grant Funding
Executive Summary
Lindsay Unified School District (CA) received $2,000,000 in grant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for involvement in the California Consortium for the Development and Dissemination of Personalized Learning (C2D2).
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Grant Funded Programming
The Lindsay Unified School District (CA) entered into a $2 million grant agreement for a partnership between Transcend, Inc, and Summit Public Schools. The partnership, titled the California Consortium for the Development and Dissemination of Personalized Learning (C2D2), is a “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded collaboration.”
As part of the programming, the partnership places “equity at the forefront” so that a “diverse leadership team and an inclusive process” can leverage “all stakeholder voices.” A 2018 document detailing the partnership’s “site level conditions” states that for “purposes of clarity and alignment, this document uses the definitions of equity, inclusion, and diversity articulated by the Racial Equity Tools Glossary.” The glossary includes such terms as “anti-black,” “critical race theory,” “racial capitalism,” “whiteness,” and “white privilege.”
The consortium partner Transcend states on its website that it “iterated with various experts in the personalized learning and equity spaces” while creating “equitably personalized learning for all students.” From its “Mission and Beliefs” page, Transcend shares that it must “reimagine ‘schooling’” by ending the “inequitable, industrial model of education that reproduces oppression.”
Transcend’s “Ten Leaps for Equitable, 21st-Century Learning” includes a “Whole-Child Focus” and “Social Consciousness & Action” which creates a mindset needed for taking “anti-oppressive actions that disrupt and dismantle racism.”
Grant Funding
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