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 12th 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]