School district deploys new dog whistle to keep race-based hiring

School district deploys new dog whistle to keep race-based hiring


A Vermont school district has found a new code word to sneak its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) commitment into its hiring process and continue racially discriminating while skirting federal directives, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

Burlington School District (BSD) states in its 2022-2027 strategic plan its intent to increase the “percentage of faculty (teachers and principals) of the global majority each year and ensure that every school has multiple staff of the global majority,” conservative watchdog Defending Education (DE) discovered and shared exclusively with DCNF. The phrase is used to refer to nonwhite races.

One of the priority areas listed in the plan is explicitly titled “Educators Who Look Like Our Students” and states a goal of ensuring “students and families will have a community of teachers, school leaders and district staff that are representatives of the global majority,” DE found. The plan mentions the phrase “global majority” 13 times in its 20 pages.

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