A school district in Newton, Massachusetts, is engaged in massive internal changed after a coalition of parents and teachers rose up against COVID-era DEI education reforms.
A group of moms in one Massachusetts public school district were condemned for questioning Diversity, Equity and Inclusion's influence on local education, but now the district itself is changing course. Carey Goldberg, a contributing writer for Globe Ideas, wrote an extensive opinion piece about how a trio of mothers in the tony Boston suburb braved public backlash to warn against far-left school policy changes.
One of the most controversial initiatives was combining students into 'multilevel' classes, where, 'Rather than students being divided into separate classes by level, students at varying levels would learn together — even in math, science, and languages.' The purported goal was to 'break the persistent pattern that white and Asian students predominated in ‘honors’ classes while Black and Hispanic students tended to be clustered in less-challenging ‘college-prep’ classes.
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