Conservative group challenges Chicago's Black Student Success Plan the day after it is released

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Chicago Releases Black Student Success Plan Amid Backlash Against Race-Based Initiatives

Its release during Black History Month is part of CPS’s broader five-year strategic plan and aims to address long-standing disparities in graduation, discipline and other metrics faced by Black students.

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2/20/25





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Parents Defending Education challenges Chicago district’s Black Student Success Plan as discriminatory​

02/22/25

A student reads at Chicago's Gary Comer Middle School in 2023...

An out-of-state advocacy group filed a federal antidiscrimination complaint challenging Chicago Public Schools’ Black Student Success Plan the day after the district released its long-awaited blueprint.

Parents Defending Education, which has challenged race-based initiatives and the teaching of topics involving race and gender in schools, submitted a complaint to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, asking it to block the five-year plan’s implementation. It invoked the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision banning the use of race as a factor in college admissions, and a “Dear Colleague” letter from the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights late last week warning school districts to halt any race-based initiatives or risk losing federal funding.

District leaders in Chicago said they would review and respond to the complaint.. CPS officials have previously said the plan is essential in addressing longstanding disparities in achievement, graduation, discipline, and other outcomes for its Black students.

The plan sets goals to increase the number of Black teachers, reduce Black student suspensions, provide more professional development for all educators, and ensure that Black history is taught in more classrooms, among other steps.

The plan’s release collides with an aggressive push by the Trump administration to root out diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The administration argued in its Dear Colleague letter that even using income and other non-racial factors in education initiatives runs afoul of the Supreme Court’s admissions decision — a claim some legal experts deem a major stretch.

In a letter to families Friday, district CEO Pedro Martinez did not specifically refer to the Black student plan but said that CPS will stay the course amid Trump administration changes and threats of withholding funding, including when it comes to teaching students’ cultures and history in the classroom.

“We will stay true to our values and our mission — to provide all students with a rigorous, joyful, and equitable daily learning experience that affirms and celebrates their identities,” Martinez wrote

 

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If the story sounds familar, the same group challenged a program in Los Angeles

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/l-a-school-districts-black-student-achievement-program-upended-after-challenge-from-conservative-group.1057767/

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

There's a war going on outside against non white organizational success and most of us are arguing about $200 dates and what country black are you.

 

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There's a war going on outside against non white organizational success and most of us are arguing about $200 dates and what country black are you.

Today's reality is too harsh for some people to accept. They look for ready distractions, and the internet provides plenty of that.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Another Federalist Society group.

Nicole Neily

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[Ghostface Trillah]

Today's reality is too harsh for some people to accept. They look for ready distractions, and the internet provides plenty of that.

Most people only see two feet in front of their face and put on blinders to things that don't immediately affect them. The domino effect of everything that helps non whites being labeled as unconstitutional is going to be felt by the younger generations. White people are going to challenge any and everything that helps non whites just to steal the resources and stockpile them. People need to wake up, step back, and see the whole play.

 

[At30wecashout]

And some folks don't see how urgent this shyt is. Complained non-stop about how behind black people are, right? We need monetary, educational, and infrastructural equity to get right, right? This White Supremacists are on anti-black time.

THERE ARE NO BLACK-ONLY INITIATIVES SURVIVING IN THIS AGE.

Trump, and yes it goes up to him, put tons of Heritage Foundation judges in play. I'm still watching to see what happens with Evanston's reparations program. If ya'll don't think shyt can get worse for us, arguing a buncha bullshyt cause we won't "Literally" go back to slavery, watch the fukking moves these dudes are busting in our faces. Don't you just love this open racism?

 

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@At30wecashout

At this point you have to dismiss and ignore those who were deflecting/juelzing about maga and bothsides, as most people eventually will. People that naive or easily manipulated can't be taken seriously.

Trump is aligned with forces that have been actively trying to turn the calendar back to 1954 for decades. Maga is what provided the green light for them to put lawmakers and judges in place to carry it out.

 

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@invalid

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

We need to learn how to move more quietly going forward. I remember as a child if there was something for us it wasnt broadcast you knew through the community. “Oh go Mr. Jones room after the final bell”. We gotta go back to that. I know this part here we talking about is different but let’s get off social media with our movements

 

[BaggerofTea]

Black parent will need to fight for their kids

 

[sportscribe]

There's a war going on outside against non white organizational success and most of us are arguing about $200 dates and what country black are you.

That's the bewildering thing to me. Every time I'm on Twitter, anyone espousing FBA/ADOS directs most of their criticism towards "foreign blacks" who make up 10% of the black population of America, yet there are racist, far-right policies being implemented it seems almost every day and they offer no commentary regarding those.

It's almost starting to look like a psy-op to me.

 

[RamsayBolton]

That's the bewildering thing to me. Every time I'm on Twitter, anyone espousing FBA/ADOS directs most of their criticism towards "foreign blacks" who make up 10% of the black population of America, yet there are racist, far-right policies being implemented it seems almost every day and they offer no commentary regarding those.

It's almost starting to look like a psy-op to me.

It's already over, the psy-op was successful.

Kamala is Indian and has no relation to her blackness at all. She went to a HBCU? Rachel Dolezal was the head of a NAACP chapter, they're obviously the exact same thing.

Africans are the real enemy. The proof is a few of them making anti-black statements on Twitter.

These are the things we have to focus on to build our power. Never mind the fact that we have white supremacists winning office and passing legislation that will set our people back decades.

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

That's the bewildering thing to me. Every time I'm on Twitter, anyone espousing FBA/ADOS directs most of their criticism towards "foreign blacks" who make up 10% of the black population of America, yet there are racist, far-right policies being implemented it seems almost every day and they offer no commentary regarding those.

It's almost starting to look like a psy-op to me.

There's a lot to unpack there but if I start doing it a certain set of posters run to the mods and start begging them to ban me and the bias mods do it.

You're 1000% right about it being a psyop. They be getting led by obvious Russian/Chinese bots and scamming Tariq. They have to try and punch down because they know they don't have the reach or power to punch upwards. Meanwhile they're getting fukked from the top and know it. Americans can't handle hearing the truth. If someone can get off a boat and take a job from you then it's on you,not them.

 

[CopiousX]

And some folks don't see how urgent this shyt is. Complained non-stop about how behind black people are, right? We need monetary, educational, and infrastructural equity to get right, right? This White Supremacists are on anti-black time.

THERE ARE NO BLACK-ONLY INITIATIVES SURVIVING IN THIS AGE.

Trump, and yes it goes up to him, put tons of Heritage Foundation judges in play. I'm still watching to see what happens with Evanston's reparations program. If ya'll don't think shyt can get worse for us, arguing a buncha bullshyt cause we won't "Literally" go back to slavery, watch the fukking moves these dudes are busting in our faces. Don't you just love this open racism?

Wouldve been wiser to set it up by zipcode or by school district section.

You can still have black initiatives if the programs are limited to a place with mostly black people. Same end result. Almost like an anti-redlining where extra aid is going to those specific sections that need it, but doesnt overtly stop outlier communities from benefitting. (For example the italian or chinese or ukranian kid who happens to live in a mostly black district)


But i think this will require major reframing by democrat politicians. They need their think tanks to make this message palatable to black people as group and explain why "disproportionately benefits black people" works better than " only black " . It defeats the purpose for them to craft black-only policies only for them to get struck down in court a week after being signed.


An example of reframing might be the infamous Kamala Harris interview where she puts her foot in her mouth about not doing black-only policies, without properly explaining why. Same with when Bernie gave his dismissive "unfeasible" response to reparations without propperly and respectfully explaining the political and legal challenges to get such a thing passed in the manner his intereviewer phrased the question.