Teachers unions, school "Equity officers," and administrators began proclaiming that historic racial inequities were responsible for the massive gaps in black and Hispanic students' reading scores.
Indianapolis Public Schools and its over 30,000 students languish in illiteracy, but you won't hear superintendent Aleesia Johnson apologize for a lack of results.
One Indianapolis middle school required students to attend so-called racial equity sessions in which Black Lives Matter activists told them that crime was a "Made up" term by "The white people."
In 2021, Chicago Public Schools boasted only a 17% literacy rate for Hispanic students and an 11% literacy rate for black students.
While racial equity is most often the distraction touted by inner-city metropolitan schools-from New York City and Washington, D.C., on the East Coast to Los Angeles and Seattle on the West Coast-the suburban school districts surrounding them usually tout LGBTQ activism as a school focus.
Hollywood and Glendale schools chose to implement curriculum on the history of "LGBTQ+ activists" in place of additional reading and math instruction.
Florida-which has enacted legislation to forbid racial and sexual activism in the classroom-along with Gov. Ron DeSantis' efforts to keep public schools open during the COVID-19 pandemic, has shown greater reading and math score improvement than any other state in the country.
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