DEI mania in public education shows no signs of receding.
As Katherine Kersten reports, the Minnesota State Colleges and University System is implementing a plan, titled “Equity 2030,” to eliminate all academic gaps among students of different racial groups.
Kersten notes that, as with all such plans, student outcomes are engineered to be determined not by actual academic performance but by race. Indeed, it couldn’t possibly be otherwise given that, in 2021, the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment Test determined that 63 percent of whites and 62 percent of Asians read at grade-level in contrast to 37 percent of Hispanics, 36 percent of blacks, and 29 percent of Native Americans.
The Equity 2030 Plan notes that, Iinstitutional racism is an entrenched characteristic of colleges and universities that has to be dismantled with strategies that are color conscious, informed by critical race theory, and systematic.” (Emphasis added.) Yep, you read that right: Institutional racism needs to be dismantled by systemic racism.
But don’t worry. The Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board has prepared standards requiring teachers to take “anti-racism” training. Surely that will remedy the appalling academic outcomes noted above.