Milton Public Schools give intrusive survey to students, commit to affinity groups; parents express concern

A small number of parents from Milton, Massachusetts have reached out to Parents Defending Education to express their displeasure and concern with a 20-page-survey given to their middle school and…

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Affinity groups in Indianapolis Public Schools sort and separate staff by race, religion, ability, sexual orientation, gender.

Indianapolis Public Schools’ (IPS) Office of Racial Equity has sent out registration information to all district employees with information about this year’s staff affinity groups. Below are the group options…

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Providence School Department makes radical shift in curriculum, offers staff professional development credits for participation in race based affinity groups

Ramona Bessinger is a teacher in Providence (and also a parent with a child in school) who decided to go public with her concerns about curriculum changes, race based groups…

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The Wheeler School hosts a “Working Group for White Parents and Guardians” and recommends ‘Woke Kindergarten’ on its website

In April, the first “Antiracism Working Group for White Parents and Guardians” was held, initiated by several parents “to support Wheeler’s ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.” Other…

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The Brentwood School Sorts Students and Families by Race, Religious Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation

The Brentwood School, a private school in Los Angeles, hosts “dialogue and community building sessions” that are intentionally segregated. As of late January, 2021 this is what the calendar…

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Dobbs Ferry Union Free School District acts on New York State Education Department’s “call to action” by creating racially segregated groups; middle school social justice club has “courageous conversations about the intersectionality of identity and race”

In 2018, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) issued the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining (CR-S) Education Framework. The Framework was designed “to support education stakeholders in developing…

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Newton Schools embrace affinity groups, teach students they must “dismantle racist structures, ideas and practices” and replace them with “antiracist structures, ideas and practices”

The Newton Public Schools brought on their first director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in October of 2020 and has since created a Race and Achievement Leadership Team…

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Pierce Middle School is all in on race based affinity groups

On October 22, 2020, Pierce Middle School’s Mosaic Club held its first meeting. In a letter from the school principal to parents, the Mosaic Club is described as “an affinity…

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Wellesley Public Schools hosted ‘Healing Space,’ excluding students ‘who identify only as White’

In late March 2021, after the murder of Asian Americans in Atlanta, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Wellesley Public Schools, outside Boston, decided to host a “Healing…

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