Minn.: Inside a Public School Social Justice Factory
In Edina, a rich suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the school district's gold-standard reputation has changed virtually overnight. Test scores are slipping and students fear bullying more and more ever since the district shifted its focus away from academic excellence and toward "racial equity."
From the Weekly Standard:
“Equity” in this context does not mean “equality” or “fairness.” It means racial identity politics—an ideology that blames minority students’ academic challenges on institutional racial bias, repudiates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s color-blind ideal, and focuses on uprooting “white privilege.”
The Edina school district’s All for All plan mandated that henceforth “all teaching and learning experiences” would be viewed through the “lens of racial equity,” and that only “racially conscious” teachers and administrators should be hired. District leaders assured parents this would reduce Edina’s racial achievement gap, which they attributed to “barriers rooted in racial constructs and cultural misunderstandings.”
