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

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Stop naming shyt after groups of people.

This could have easily been called the Chicago SouthSide School Inniative, The Low Income School Iniative, etc... I'm just throwing names out there.

But we really have to be smarter with how initiatives are presented. America has allowed conservatives and MAGA to rule. You have to be one step ahead of them or else we risk losing it all.

Right. This desire to add “black” to everything is so stupid. Just be indirect.

Ironically, I bet Umar hasn’t considered the fact he’ll be sued if that school ever opens

 

[Bryan Danielson]

This is disgusting & disappointing

 

[At30wecashout]

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.

I'm sorry, but you have seen the knuckleheads on here. Anything less than "Yes" to reparations is seen as a letdown. I mentioned knuckleheads on here because my naïve ass has found out that people in real life think the same way. 140 characters or less.

It's the same as "Republicans always get things done but Dems don't have any power" argument. They ignore all that actually gets done and base their disappointment on the specific things they care about.

The Zipcode/district argument is valid, but its kinda like how discrimination is hard to prove BUT you can establish a pattern and have a case that way. It doesn't matter if it works the first time, the people who want it gone will try again. Evanston reparations has been sued by the same group, Judicial watch, twice. The first one was thrown out for being some bullshyt. They came back a couple years later with another argument and its being litigated to this dayIf a sympathetic judge buys some bullshyt argument about your equitable program causing harm to others, it's a wrap, or its expensive enough to harm the program. The current environment is not friendly to trying to skirt around anything that isn't broad in it's approach. Much like Kamala and Bernie's example, you end up having to do too much juelzing to justify in court and in the court of public opinion when it's obvious the intended purpose. HBCUs allow anyone to join which is how they keep it moving, and they know most non-black folk won't join. Grants and scholarships are totally different: everyone is going to want it and will get litigious.

 

[MostReal]

we are going to have to use the term FREEDMAN descent, there's no way around it.

 

[get these nets]

Illinois schools continuing DEI initiatives despite federal funding threats​

02/26/25

Illinois Superintendent Tony Sanders participates in a previous Illinois State Board of Education meeting

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education is not telling schools to stop any diversity, equity and inclusion lessons or programs, the state’s education chief told a House committee this week, even as the Trump administration threatens to pull federal funding from schools that don’t stop.

State Superintendent Tony Sanders informed the panel that ISBE received a “dear colleague” letter from the U.S. Department of Education earlier this month informing schools that “under any banner, discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin is, has been, and will continue to be illegal.” It said compliance with federal discrimination laws will be reviewed by the department by the end of February as a condition of federal funding

The letter has no legal force, Sanders said Tuesday, “and so I would encourage districts to continue … teaching the way they’ve always taught.”

Sanders acknowledged that roughly 10% of funding for Illinois school districts could be at risk if the federal government ceases funding. ISBE receives billions annually from the federal government.

“We don’t have a way to make up for that loss of funds,” he said.

Prompted by lawmakers to explain what equity means in Illinois schools, Sanders said it means making sure all students have the resources they personally need for their individual success. ISBE’s lineup of initiatives designed to uplift a greater variety of students and educators include special education programs, efforts to recruit more minority teachers and mechanisms to improve grades for students of color.

The data shows incorporating DEI is necessary, he said, pointing to the 2024 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card.

The results showed significant achievement gaps among different subgroups of students in Illinois. In fourth grade math, for example, there was a 32-point gap between the average score for white and Black students. Eighth grade math assessments had a similar 32-point gap.

Even so, the committee’s ranking Republican debated the importance of initiatives designed to assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

“Maybe we should start focusing on excellence a little bit more,” Rep. Blaine Wilhour, R-Beecher City, said. “We have a great equity center and focus right now and I think it’s led to some of these dismal results. I think if we focus more on the specifics of reading and writing and math, it would stand to reason that those scores could come up.”

Sanders responded by saying incorporating DEI isn’t changing classroom curriculum.



“What you see in the curriculum are high levels of quality instruction across the state,” Sanders said. “Again, there’s always room for improvement but all I see is teachers trying to meet the needs of their students.”

 

[DetroitEWarren]

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.

Man that shyt blows my mind. You never see me inside of irrelevant ass threads unless it's about sports, shows, gaming, and music because those are other things I'm passionate about. None of that shyt overrides my love for OUR culture and OUR political implications.

I can't understand how mfers are still on social media talking about club nights, and I still club A LOT at 38, but that shyt is still unimportant to me.

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

Cacs aint shyt

 

[get these nets]

The first linked article in OP mentions how long this Black Student program has been in the works, how it was formed, and how the state laws give it layers of protection.

The Governor and Ed. Supt. recent public pushbacks against Trump are consistent with what was written in the article about the rollout.

They are still in for a fight, but this was NOT some naive release unaware of the political climate of the country. Here is a quote from one of the educators about all of that.

Still, some district and community leaders in Chicago said the district must forge ahead with the effort even as it braces for pushback.
“Now is not the time for anticipatory obedience and preemptive acquiescence,” said Elizabeth Todd-Breland, a University of Illinois Chicago professor of African American history and a former Chicago school board member who served on a working group that helped craft the plan. “This is not the time to shrink but to live out our values.”

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Translation in layman's terms

Spoiler: in layman's terms

 

[feelosofer]

Elections matter.

 

[get these nets]

CPS Black Student Success Plan Lawsuit

Feb 26, 2025

Just days after Chicago Public Schools released its long awaited black student success plan, an out-of-state advocacy group filed a lawsuit to stop it. Mila Koumpilova, Senior Reporter with Chalkbeat joins WGN's Micah Materre for live analysis of this legal challenge

 

[Elim Garak]

Conservatives are the enemy.