Stacy Davis Gates earlier this month expressed frustration with a major way student achievement is assessed.
Democrats are turning their focus to the future under a potential Kamala Harris administration in the second day of the DNC. Stacy Davis Gates speaks during a news conference on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, in Chicago.
“The way in which, you know, we think about learning and think about achievement is really and truly based on testing, which at best is junk science rooted in White supremacy,” she said. When people talk to me about testing alone, you know, I have to trouble the waters and challenge that because you can’t test Black children with an instrument that was born to prove their inferiority,” she said.in September she decided to send her son to a private school over a Chicago public high school, pointing to a lack of opportunities for Black students.
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