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It’s also generating a new industry ‐ cultural and racial equity training. Pacific Education Group is an industry leader. According to the Kansas City Star, the California firm "has been in high demand in recent years, training educators, city leaders and corporate executives from Lawrence [Kansas] to New York and Philadelphia to Los Angeles and around the world."
The Group’s founder, Glenn Singleton, is the author of "Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools." The "courageousness" of Singleton’s politically correct conversations is open to question, but according to the Star, his is the No. 1 book recommended by the Missouri School Board Association for educators and administrators to read this year.
Recently, however, parents in a Missouri school district ‐ Lee’s Summit ‐ rebelled against paying Singleton and his group to provide cultural and racial equity training. They expressed their displeasure at a school board meeting and on social media.
According to the Star, critics "opposed Singleton’s firm because of its cost, and its discussion of white privilege and the cultural competence of white teachers educating black children." Some wondered why the focus should be on inequities related to race.