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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The $250,000 million would be better spent in the schools in Detroit with concentrated reading classes and concentrated math classes to learn the basics of English and Math.[/quote]

So your recommendation is that the Michigan legislature should have somehow estimated how much the University of Michigan was spending out of its mostly private budget on DEI, reduced the state funding by that much each year, and given it only to Detroit Public Schools as supplemental money above the existing per pupil uniform state allowance?

Sounds like DeSantis policy to me.

Very unlikely that could actually be enacted, but if the R's were able to redirect a controversial funding stream, they would probably try to get the charter schools and religious schools in on the deal.

Don't forget Betsy DeVos is from Michigan.[/quote]

Something I find curious is that civil rights law is heavily based on the concept of disparate impact. Even if something isn't "about race," it's illegal if it has a negative disparate impact on a protected class. IQ tests are mostly illegal in hiring, for example, because blacks tend to do less well on them. [/quote]

In what country?

The fukn military uses an IQ test called the asvab that determines what job you get in the military.  Are THEY engaging in illegal hiring practices.

[quote]But with DEI, everything has to be explicitly "about race" (or gender). You can't do things that would quietly disparately benefit black students, like say professionalize the lowest level math and English classes (where black students are disproportionately likely to end up) and ensuring that the curriculum allows students from those levels to complete reasonably challenging degrees. That would have been a good use of $250 million. Just for example.

I realize that race is a hard topic and sometimes it has to be in people's faces, but making DEI just about the in your face stuff (forced trainings, coerced diversity statements, high profile DEI hires, the grievance system) has left a bad taste in people's mouths and not accomplished much in terms of student outcomes.[/quote]

This is probably true.  That 250 million would probably have been better spent on other hings.[/quote]

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