Rantz: Seattle Public Schools budget focuses goals exclusively on black students, leaving others behind

Seattle Public Schools promises to be “laser-focused” on student achievement in 2022-2023 — so long as the student is black.

The district is hyper-focused on race, an approach that started in 2019. SPS intentionally separates students by race, adopting a philosophy of “targeted universalism,” which argues that if you treat everyone equally, it might deepen inequality between groups. The district’s new $1.14 billion budget, introduced last week and up for a vote on July 6, is built to bolster its three race-based goals. Each one is centered around black boys.

SPS believes black boys are underachieving academically because of “broken systems” that the district vows to fix, “undoing legacies of

→ Continue reading at MyNorthwest

Related articles

Comments

Share article

Latest articles