'Achieving equity' among students 'may require unequal distribution of resources and services': Milwaukee Public Schools memo

"Achieving equity" among students may "require unequal distribution of resources and services," according to a Milwaukee Public Schools memo Young America's Foundation obtained.

What are the details?

The overarching theme of the 33-page memo is student discipline "disproportionality," and the document also includes directives on anti-racism, equity, and "whiteness."

One section on page 25 of the memo reads: “Whiteness is everywhere around us. Educational practices have been rooted in whiteness and coming from a lens of whiteness for years. Educators should reflect on which elements of whiteness they see in education, which they participate in, and which elements they can work to dismantle."

That same page suggests staff ask themselves, "How is your world view and practices within education centered in whiteness? What racists [sic] beliefs have you internalized? What are specific steps we can take to de-center whiteness in our educational practices?"

A section on "equity" on page 7 makes sure to distinguish between "equality" and "equity," noting the former means "uniform distribution of district resources, supports, and opportunities" and the latter means "allocation of district resources, supports, and opportunities that is based on the needs of students and staff."

The section goes on to say that "achieving equity may require an unequal distribution of resources and services in order to ensure that all children have an equal opportunity to a free and appropriate public education."

A list of resources on page 26 links to a nearly 27-minute video titled “Whiteness: WTF? White Privilege and the Invisible Race."

YAF said it's unclear how widely the memo was distributed and that it reached out to Milwaukee Public Schools in regard to the memo.

"What Milwaukee Public Schools are promoting is yet another example of a concentrated effort to eliminate a merit-based system and replace it with one that is focused on race," Jasmyn Jordan, national chairwoman of YAF, told Fox News. "DEI is fundamentally against everything the left claims to stand for — it is the opposite of racial equality and inclusion."

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