Taxpayer-Funded Equity Center Resources ‘Directly Undermine’ American Ideals

Taxpayer-funded equity-focused events directed school employees to push public school boards to focus on race and gender, encouraged staff to focus on “disrupting whiteness” and promoted ideologies that critics say lay “the groundwork for a communist worldview.” Chalkboard reviewed recordings of federally sponsored virtual roundtables and events where presenters promoted controversial ideas like critical race theory, intersectionality and critical consciousness for school administrators, teachers and staff. A September virtual roundtable discussion focused on “disrupting racism at the intersections in schools” and used the definition of intersectionality created by the founder of critical race theory Kimberlé Crenshaw.