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.”