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Panelists presented a number of projects currently in the works seeking to address the opportunity gap \u2014 including universal transitional kindergarten, pipelines for male educators of color, open houses with parents and students, and a race equity index which helps discuss issues that disproportionately affect Black students without being in violation of Proposition 209.<\/p>\n
The panel included Thurmond, California Community Colleges Board of Governors President Pamela Haynes; Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, and Elease Cheek with the Solano County Board of Education. It was moderated by Larry Lee, president of The Sacramento Observer newspaper.<\/p>\n
The panelists, who repeatedly said the disparities must stop now, pointed to data. Of the more than 300,000 Black students in California:<\/p>\n
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- 67% of California Black children do not read or write at grade level.<\/li>\n
- 86% of Black students are not at grade level in science.<\/li>\n
- 31% of Black students have completed their A-G requirements, (necessary for admission to a California State college or university) as opposed to 49% of White students and 70% of Asian students.<\/li>\n
- 77% of Black students graduate high school, in contrast to 88% of White students and 93% of Asian students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The main challenge<\/h2>\n
Haynes, a veteran educator who also serves on the Los Rios Community College District, believes part of the issue lies in continuously wanting to fix the student and not the system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need transformation, not reforming what has not been working,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Haynes added that educators also need to focus on equity.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means you push resources towards those who are in most need, which is different from equality. Equity is looking at who is most in need \u2014 but not equally distributing resources.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, she emphasized the need for more Black educators.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents don\u2019t see themselves in those who are teaching them. And those who are teaching them \u2014 while well meaning \u2014 do not see equity from a racial or social justice lens.\u201d Haynes said. \u201cWe have to racialize this. We have got to call it as we see it,\u00a0because it is Black and Brown students who are not being served by our institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haynes was brutally honest with the virtual audience: \u201cOur institutions operate from a position of being race evasive. We have got to begin to have explicit, intentional, unapologetic conversations that are uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minding the gap<\/h2>\n
Thurmond agreed with Haynes that \u201cwe need to be intentional in talking about supporting and improving Black student achievement.\u201d Thurmond said that while he is \u201ccompletely and squarely focused on helping all six million students regardless of their background,\u201d the reality for Black students and families remains.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are more likely to have underlying health conditions that put us at higher risk for COVID, homelessness, food insecurity, living in poverty. When you layer all these things together you see that you absolutely need to have a strategy that is intentional,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
As a legislator, Thurmond introduced Assembly Bill 1014 which he described as taking money from the criminal justice system to put in schools for programs that reduce chronic absenteeism and promote restorative justice. He now oversees those grants, to date allocating near 90 million.<\/p>\n
At the department of education, Thurmond has created the first-ever equity branch led by Dr. Daniel Lee, rolling out \u201cEducation to End Hate.\u201d The program, launched during COVID-19, provides anti-racism and implicit bias training to educators in schools.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started at the department of education, I made it a requirement that every administrator must take implicit bias training and diversity training,\u201d Thurmond said.<\/p>\n
More than $200,000 has been allocated to various school districts for more anti-racism programs. Another $200,000 will fund \u201cequity grants\u201d focused on closing the gaps. Thurmond announced a brand-new $10 million grant program focused on anti-racism and anti-hate.<\/p>\n
Thurmond feels one of the keys to minding the \u201copportunity gap\u201d is recruitment of male educators. He has partnered with Assembly member Mike Gipson (D-Compton), to introduce a bill to expand the number of male educators of color that work in classrooms.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost 70% of our students are of color. Our workforce does not reflect that,\u201d Thurmond said.<\/p>\n
Thurmond also mentioned a second initiative, a new task force focused squarely on closing the Black student achievement gap. \u201cNow we have all the resources that we need to move the needle in the right direction as it relates to Black student achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thurmond\u2019s strategy for identifying and closing the gaps, without running afoul of Prop. 209 by talking about race, includes working with Ryan Smith, Chief External Officer at Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, and the grassroots Brotherhood Crusade of south Los Angeles. Thurmond said they have developed \u201ca new metric that looks at many conditions that students of color experience \u2014 but doesn\u2019t call them out by race.\u201d<\/p>\n
By using it in the L.A. Unified School District, they found a way to increase the amount of money students experience by looking at identifiers like free and reduced lunch, and poverty rates. Thurmond says that the metric also examined things that historically don\u2019t get looked at like communities impacted by violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you layer these together you create a way to have a conversation about serving students of color and Black students \u2014 and about being able to increase the amount of money available to serve them,\u201d Thurmond said.<\/p>\n
Thurmond went on to detail the Racial Equity Index, an approach he hopes to use with the schools and the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are probably two dozen school districts in the state that have the highest incidents of racial segregation and poverty. We are going to use this racial equity index to revisit that legislation to give us a way to work directly in those schools \u2014 to be on a course to directly support Black students.\u201d<\/p>\n
Universal transitional kindergarten<\/h2>\n
After seven years, McCarty finally passed Universal TK. \u201cThat\u2019ll be a huge boom for all Californians,\u201d said McCarty. \u201cSpecifically, Black Californians disproportionately impacted by having a lack of access to early childhood education.\u201d<\/p>\n
Black Californians will now have multiple years of free quality early education before they start kindergarten, which will have a huge impact on the readiness gap, McCarty said.<\/p>\n
McCarty has also been developing a program that makes it easier for Black and Brown teachers to get certified and is already producing results. He acknowledges that there have been challenges in implementing solutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cBlack students \u2026 are not geographically concentrated like they were 20, 30, 40 years ago. We have to look statewide,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
McCarty worked with then-legislator, Dr. Shirley Weber, to authorize a block grant designed to target low-performing students.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the best budget in the history of California,\u201d he said. \u201cThe money we put forward lifted all boats. It\u2019s still not enough, we still see the disparities. But the big issue is that there is the desire to do something here.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCarty added that the changes reflect the times. \u201cIn the summer of George Floyd, we had bills that passed that never had a chance before. I had a bill that restored voting rights for the formerly incarcerated, never had a chance before, it passed. Bills on police reform that never had a chance, they passed. Ethnic studies. A lot of stuff that has a great impact on Black California. There is a will to do this, we are just focusing on the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Who are we listening to?<\/h2>\n
Cheek, a trustee with the Solano County Board of Education, asked the rest of the panelists: \u201cWho are we listening to? I am on the ground. I am in the trenches and I am working with students every day. I am talking with students \u2026 I am looking at building a pipeline for careers and construction that sustain the families in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cheek feels the answer to the shortage of diverse teachers is clear: \u201cMake the educational career exciting for our students. They will be the ones going for those positions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cheek has held town halls and spoken with students who, she says, tell her that as young students, juniors and seniors going to college no one listens to them. Cheek believes that when it comes to the youth one element that is key to closing the gap is that \u201cwe\u2026listen to their stories, understand \u2026 their family dynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n
EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: A.V. Benford is a Report for America Corp Member and an Education Reporter for <\/em>Cap Radio News<\/em><\/a> and The Sacramento Observer. Support for this Sacramento OBSERVER article was provided to Word In Black (WIB) by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. WIB is a collaborative of 10 Black-owned media that includes print and digital partners.<\/em><\/p>\n
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