{"id":1589798,"date":"2022-08-04T18:32:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T22:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589798"},"modified":"2022-08-04T18:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T22:32:12","slug":"california-school-district-pays-woke-kindergarten-group-20k-for-consulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-school-district-pays-woke-kindergarten-group-20k-for-consulting\/","title":{"rendered":"California School District Pays \u2018Woke Kindergarten\u2019 Group $20K For Consulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-school-district-pays-woke-kindergarten-group-20k-for-consulting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589798&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/california\">California<\/a> school district shelled out $20,000 for \u201cWoke Kindergarten\u201d education consulting in an elementary school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Parent activist group Parents Defending Education first found out about the contract between Hayward Unified School District and the group, which is being paid for teacher training that will last a month and cover \u201canti-racist\u201d and anti-bias instruction at Glassbrook Elementary School, the Washington Examiner exclusively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/community-family\/ca-school-district-paid-20k-for-woke-kindergarten-consultant\">reported<\/a> last week. Erika Sanzi, the parent group\u2019s director of outreach, called the organization \u201cideological indoctrination\u201d that has \u201cno place in a kindergarten classroom or any classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The contract abstract for the district says employees and teachers will \u201clearn how to use Woke Kindergarten\u2019s resources and pedagogical approaches in practice as a way to disrupt whiteness, white dominant\/settler colonial narratives and anti-Blackness in the Glassbrook community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The group\u2019s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wokekindergarten.org\/\">explains<\/a> that it is \u201csupporting children, families, educators and organizations in their commitment to abolitionist early education and pro-black and queer and trans liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/california-school-district-paying-20k-woke-kindergarten-consulting\">reported<\/a> the contractor agreement said Woke Kindergarten was brought in for \u201cthematic unit planning and coaching,\u201d while the financial impact statement said the training\u2019s purpose was to \u201ccontinue \u2026 anti-racist, anti-bias training and connect to building thematic units along with coaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The extent of the contract also involves utilizing Woke Kindergarten\u2019s materials to \u201cdisrupt whiteness, white dominant\/settler colonial narratives and anti-Blackness in the Glassbrook [Elementary School] community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The proposal also noted that the group collaborated with Glassbrook Elementary for the 2021-2022 school year \u201cto facilitate four workshops and support staff in creating and implementing healing-centered, early childhood &#038; elementary tools and frameworks to support teachers in supporting children\u2019s holistic needs in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Michael Bazeley, Director of Public Information and Governmental Relations\u00a0at Hayward Unified School District, told The Daily Wire over email, \u201c[a]t this time, we have no comment on that topic,\u201d regarding Woke Kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The news comes after some California schools have refused to divulge information on how they spent COVID funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nonprofit outlet CalMatters <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/education\/2022\/06\/california-schools-stimulus-funds-oversight\/\">reached<\/a> out to several school districts earlier this year to find out how their COVID money was spent, but some have not discussed the details. The outlet sent public records requests to over 30 public school districts in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Through federal or state initiatives over the past two years, $33.5 billion one-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ca.gov\/fg\/cr\/relieffunds.asp\">funding<\/a> went to California\u2019s K-12 schools to help them deal with the effects of COVID. Over the course of three months, CalMatters looked into the spending at specific school districts, only to be ignored or told they couldn\u2019t provide information by certain districts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Oakland Unified and San Francisco Unified (SFUSD) both refused to give the outlet their transaction data, and Stockton Unified, Elk Grove Unified, Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified, and Los Angeles Unified (LAUSD) hadn\u2019t given the outlet any information either. LAUSD had recognized the request from March, but had not provided data the week CalMatters published its report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cUnfortunately, The District is unable to locate any document responsive to your request,\u201d Geri Baskind, a district legal assistant for Oakland, wrote to the outlet regarding CalMatters\u2019 March records request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A letter from SFUSD reportedly said, \u201cThe District does not use an accounting system that would allow us to extract the transactional level information requested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While some district authorities say there are lots of difficult reporting guidelines, education proponents and some parents have said the details around who is being paid and what is being bought is many times unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Daily Wire has reached out to LAUSD, OUSD\u2019s student services, SFUSD, Stockton Unified, Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified, and Elk Grove Unified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California school district shelled out $20,000 for \u201cWoke Kindergarten\u201d education consulting in an elementary school. Parent activist group Parents Defending Education first found out about the contract between Hayward Unified School District and the group, which is being paid for teacher training that will last a month and cover \u201canti-racist\u201d and anti-bias instruction at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1589843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}