EDquity Consulting is an Atlanta-based critical race theory-influenced educational consulting firm. ¹ Founded in 2020, EDquity has reached over 4,500 teachers, 80,000 students, and 20 school organizations ² through district and school-level training programs and workshops focused on topics including “dismantling white supremacy culture at school” ³ and combatting “curriculum violence.” ⁴

EDquity has said Hispanic Heritage Month is “rooted in white supremacy and colonialism,” ⁵ teaching “grit” to students is racist, ⁶ and called for “decolonization” of curriculum and culture at schools. ⁷ The company also promotes a book list which includes works from controversial critical race theory authors as Ibram X. Kendi ⁸ and Gholdy Muhammad. ⁹

EDquity’s founder LaTrice Lyle was a participant with Teach for America program, ¹⁰ has said the United States is “committed to white supremacy,” ¹¹ and supports efforts to “decolonize Thanksgiving” in school curriculums. ¹²

History and Leadership

Edquity Consulting was founded by LaTrice Lyle in 2020. ¹³ Since then, EDquity has reached over 4,500 teachers, 80,000 students, and more than 20 school organizations through its critical race theory-inspired programming. ¹⁴

Prior to founding EDquity Consulting, Lyle was a participant on the left-of-center Teach for America program in 2013. ¹⁵ She has said the United States is “committed to white supremacy,” ¹⁶ proposed efforts to “decolonize Thanksgiving,” ¹⁷ has said “white supremacy culture” is prevalent in majority black schools, ¹⁸ and supports the far-left Black Lives Matter movement. ¹⁹

Activities and Funding

EDquity Consulting is an educational consultancy group that offers small group coaching, project-based work, and district- and school-level educational development to implement critical race theory-inspired “anti-bias and anti-racist” theory and practice in classrooms based on four key points: ²⁰

• Identifying four key levers to apply “antiracism” in real-time in classrooms;
• Combatting and identifying “curriculum violence” and “curriculum trauma;”
• Identifying six elements of “social justice education;” and
• Project-based learning and social justice beginning in fall 2021.

EDquity runs critical race theory-inspired professional development sessions on “anti-bias” and “anti-racist” theory and practice and racial identity development and practice, performs so-called equity audits of curriculums,  and hosts the Antiracism for Educators Conference series for preschool to 12^th grade teachers. ²¹ The group also operates eight-week-long coaching programs and workshops for teachers ²² focused on “dismantling white supremacy culture at school” ²³ and combatting “curriculum violence.” ²⁴

EDquity has said Hispanic Heritage Month is “rooted in white supremacy and colonialism,” ²⁵ teaching “grit” to students is racist, ²⁶ and called for the removal of gendered dress codes, decolonization of curriculum and culture at schools, ²⁷ and the “unlearning of inaccurate history.” ²⁸

The group promotes its own book list for educators which includes books from controversial critical race theory-inspired authors such as Ibram X. Kendi, ²⁹ Gholdy Muhammad, and others. ³⁰

EDquity is in partnership with the left-of-center Teach for America and Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth. ³¹

Funding

EDquity Consulting receives its funding from program and service fees from events and consulting. The group also works with Washington, D.C., Public Schools, which promotes its “anti-racist” curriculum, ³² and provides equity consulting to the Sun Prairie Area School District in Madison, Wisconsin. ³³

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