Pennsylvania school districts are paying thousands in membership dues to the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (GSE), which offers administrators trainings on identifying “microaggressions” and growing “racial literacy,” according to documents obtained through a public records request by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
(CSSC), a branch of the University of Pennsylvania’s GSE, partners with nearly 90 school districts throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey to provide monthly professional development trainings and materials to administrators, which has included sessions on “racial literacy” and “equity agency,” according to documents obtained through a public records request by the DCNF.
Two school systems paid thousands to the CSSC in membership dues for its services, which includes access to such offered workshops as well as meetings with other superintendents and the University of Pennsylvania’s GSE staff.