Other school districts are linked to Curtis Acosta, of Acosta Educational Partnership (AEP) and Acosta Latino Learning Partnership (ALLP). Resources from Acosta associate Samia Shoman feature heavily in the toolkit. The San Mateo Union High School District, where Shoman is manager of academic support programs, has also partnered with ALLP as has Santa Rosa City Schools. The Davis Joint Unified School District also inked a contract with Acosta Latino Learning Partnership back in 2022.
The Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District voted to approve a partnership with AEP over ethnic studies. MVLA Superintendent Nellie Meyer told The Daily Wire that her district does not use the toolkit developed by CLES and LESMCC.
James Logan High School in New Haven Unified School District is an affiliate of the CLES as is the Social Justice Academy of San Leandro High School. The Daily Wire reached out to both high school districts over whether the toolkit was used in schools in the area.
Other schools have been linked to CLES-affiliate Community Responsive Education (CRE). Previously, both Jefferson Elementary School District and Jefferson Union High School District partnered with CRE. There was also a proposed partnership between Pajaro Valley Unified School District and CRE.
Pajaro also worked with the Santa Cruz County of Education to partner with CRE to create an Ethnic Studies Teachers of Color Circle. One of the
"coaches" was Allyson Tintiangco-Cuables, a co-founder of CRE.
Tintiangco-Cubales previously ran a workshop on
"culturally rooted pedagogy" and
"ethnic studies" for teachers with the Tucson Unified School District back in 2021. She has also consulted for Boston Public Schools' ethnic studies curriculum.
Both Tintiangco-Cubales and Shoman helped develop the ethnic studies framework for Vermont's new state-wide ethnic studies requirements. The Daily Wire reached out to the Vermont State Board of Education asking about the interaction of materials from CLES and LESMCC into schools around the state.
The Daily Wire reached out to all 18 districts asking if the toolkit was being utilized in classrooms. Pajaro Valley Unified School District Interim Superintendent Murry Schekman told The Daily Wire that the district does not
"use the critical media literacy toolkit."
Staley said that it could be difficult to track how the toolkit was being used in classrooms because teachers may take the material but not document it.
"They'll take this information and they may not have it written down, they may not use this lesson plan. But what they're going to do is have a conversation that, unless a kid records it and posts it on social media, we'll never know what the conversation was," he said.
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