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On February 14, 2018, Chandler Unified School District #80 implemented their equity and inclusion initiative. This is a breakdown of events, both past and present, that leads us to today. #cancelCorwin #exposeDeepEquity
@ChandlerUnified has repeatedly said that their equity and inclusion initiative has nothing to do with any one event. Here is a Corwin/CUSD80 produced video featuring @roughwater1 saying just as much:
In fact, the @ChandlerUnified administration has repeatedly said that this was something in the works for several years, that there was a committee or council that had been working on the "achievement gap" for several years prior to this initiative.
However, it is interesting that this initiative rolled out after a couple of occurrences in the district:
The first occurrence was "A Race to Freedom" movie that reportedly used racial slurs. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/chandler-education/2017/09/14/mom-criticizes-chandler-school-district-santan-junior-high-slavery-movie-with-n-word/639463001/
The second incident was the San Tan student video that was filmed off campus during a party that featured students singing lyrics with racial slurs. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/chandler-education/2018/02/14/chandler-parents-slam-school-administrators-inaction-after-racist-video-district-addresses-diversity/1065657001/
Regardless if the initiative was long in the works and that these events pushed up the timeline or these events were the genesis of the initiative, the point remains: @ChandlerUnified rolled out its initiative due to these precipitating events.
So on February 14, 2018, @ChandlerUnified adopted their Equity and Inclusion initiative, which included adopting curriculum (the RFP's language, not mine) for teacher training and youth development as well as hiring for a counseling director and equity and inclusion director.
Dr @salluadama was hired as the equity and inclusion director and Brenda Ramos was hired as the counseling director. http://santansun.com/2018/08/06/chandler-schools-make-push-on-student-equity/
And @ChandlerUnified decided to use a multi-contract award for their equity and inclusion RFP; one of those vendors was Corwin and their Deep Equity and Youth Equity Stewardship programs.
While the board allotted up to $2 million for their equity and inclusion initiative, they have only spent $419k to date https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2019/10/30/chandler-unifieds-deep-equity-program-came-with-shocking-price-tag/
This amount is coming out of both Title II funds and district funds.
While the initiative is supposed to be an ongoing process, the Deep Equity program is intended to be a 3-5 year process but CUSD has chosen to use it as a 5 year program where, during phase 2, the school sites will differentiate based on their needs.
The training in 2018 only included certified staff; in 2019, support staff was included in the equity training.
The training in 2018 started with an in-service in July, where Dr. Sallu was introduced and the staff was introduced to the equity work. This included videos from Dr. Gary Howard from Corwin.
The YES! students also had a 5-day gathering at the beginning of the school year to launch their social justice work.
Learn more about #youthequitystewardship and how it plays out in @ChandlerUnified here: https://twitter.com/valentine_repub/status/1197769800509882368?s=20
CUSD80 also hosted their equity summer symposium that was used as an opportunity to train teachers on issues of equity and inclusion. Learn more about it here: https://twitter.com/valentine_repub/status/1197777909173219328?s=20
In March, CUSD's program came under fire http://santansun.com/2019/03/14/cusd-deep-equity-raises-some-parents-concerns/
@lorihunnicutt from the Arizona Daily Independent broke the news on the the cost of the social justice training from @ChandlerUnified #DeepEquity https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2019/10/30/chandler-unifieds-deep-equity-program-came-with-shocking-price-tag/
On November 8, 2019, Tucker Carlson mentioned Chandler and it's #DeepEquity program. https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1192992738918055937?s=20
Even the local student newspapers have gotten in on it with those hard-hitting questions #CancelCorwin #DeepEquity https://phsprecedent.com/features/2019/11/15/qa-with-cusd-director-of-equity-dr-adama-sallu/
You might be wondering why the students at Perry High School have decided to take it upon themselves to talk about equity and inclusion. https://phsprecedent.com/opinions/2019/11/14/district-wide-deep-equity-leads-to-understanding/
But this is coming from the same student paper who gushed about how great equity and inclusion is: https://phsprecedent.com/opinions/2018/12/16/deep-equity-a-stride-forward-for-education/
The school boards are implementing tactics to deal with resistance from the community: https://twitter.com/valentine_repub/status/1197784506586910722?s=20
More from PHS, home of the MAGA mom and Principal Dan Serrano: https://phsprecedent.com/showcase/2019/11/18/students-staff-community-deeply-torn-on-equity-training/
And then there is the film/lecture series https://twitter.com/valentine_repub/status/1197944332281495553?s=19
If @lilyalta did her research, she'd know that parents understand that #DeepEquity is not being taught to kids--but to adults (as if that makes it any better) #cancelCorwin https://twitter.com/Meeeech_L/status/1198665330815426560?s=19
@petrsvab from @EpochTimes wrote an in-depth analysis of Deep Equity in Chandler and the cultural marxism inherent in such programs. https://twitter.com/PetrSvab/status/1199386833320366081?s=20
@ChaseWatkins002 tries to interview Corwin about their Deep Equity https://twitter.com/ChaseWatkins002/status/1201609803782639616?s=19
