The Time Is Now: White Suburban School District Response to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Blackness

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Abstract

Of the largest 25 largest metropolitan areas in the country, the majority of students within these open-zone suburban schools were majority non-white (Herold, 2021). However, for suburban schools in white suburban areas with closed zone districts the diversity rates skewed disproportionately white. Within this study, I examine a majority white suburb and the school board to examine how they develop and implement DEI policies that address anti-Blackness while also identifying ways that these majority white boards respond to CRT.

Author

• Tim Herd, University of California - Los Angeles