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The city of South Bend will have to significantly increase contracting with women- and minority-owned firms for the rest of the year to meet its annual 6% goal spelled out in a new ordinance, according to its first and only planned quarterly report on the initiative.
Of the $22 million the city spent from January through March on projects worth more than $50,000, about $120,000, or .54%, went to certified women- and minority-owned firms, according to the report recently released by the city’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Those expenditures went to four companies – three women-owned that received about $119,000 worth of business and one owned by a racial or ethnic minority for goods or services valued at $1,367.
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Christina Brooks, then diversity and inclusion director for the city of South Bend, discusses consultant Colette Holtâs study of the cityâs contracting with women- and minority-owned firms Oct. 4, 2019 at the Charles Martin Youth Center, as Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Holt listen. The cityâs common council Monday night passed a bill to lower contracting goals resulting from an error Holt made in over-estimating the availability of such firms in the area.
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The latest proxy in the culture wars? School district equity policies; Saratoga Springs in bitter debate | The Daily Gazette
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A new diversity and equity policy in the Saratoga Springs City School District is either a long-needed balm to heal educational disparities in the district or a rogue attempt to indoctrinate students with radical race theories.
The community’s bitter debate in recent weeks over the policy, which the school board adopted Tuesday night after hearing scores of public comments, reflects an emerging front in the nation’s polarized culture war as educators increasingly acknowledge disparate student outcomes – which in countless instances fall along racial lines – and work to remedy them, sometimes referring to the work as “antiracism.”
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Christina Brooks, then diversity and inclusion director for the city of South Bend, discusses consultant Colette Holtâs study of the cityâs contracting with women- and minority-owned firms Oct. 4, 2019 at the Charles Martin Youth Center, as Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Holt listen. The cityâs common council Monday night passed a bill to lower contracting goals resulting from an error Holt made in over-estimating the availability of such firms in the area.
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