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[quote=Anonymous]I'd like Josh Starr to sit through one of the opportunity design team meetings and then say that this is a bold move for equity.

They have NO plans for equity. Their "bold move" is to start up a bunch of underresourced programs and magically more Black and brown kids will attend.

They have not meaningfully addressed:

Readiness for attendance in advanced programs
Offering similar quality programs in each region
Ensuring that resources like community partnerships aren't hoarded by the "legacy"  magnets and are managed centrally or at least consistency is valued

Instead they are PROUD that they have based program location on "existing assets"...which have been proven time and time again to be plentiful and rich for low FARMS schools and to be meagerly available for high FARMs schools.

Then they doubled down on that by offering an obscene number of local preference seats which means that a Whitman student wanting to be in the humanities program will have two times the opportunity than a Northwood student.

Watch them quickly shift gears as they see how this will fail to address gaps in outcomes and equity, and they will start gaslighting everyone that it was never intended to address or solve inequities, but just to offer more access.

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