Educators for Quality and Equality is a grassroots group of California educators from across the state committed to ensuring that we have an Ethnic Studies curriculum that we can be proud to teach. As educators, Educators for Quality and Equality supports ethnic studies courses that confront racism, develop civic responsibility, and help to develop the 21st century skills that our students need to succeed in school, work, and life.

“Critical race theory is not sound K-12 classroom pedagogy.

It divides people into oppressor and oppressed groups, creating a hostile and disempowering classroom environment for students. It is polarizing, not uniting, and makes group identity primary at the expense of individual achievement.

Simply put, we are told to teach students to first label people by the color of their skin, and then condemn one group as being racist.”

– Educators for Quality and Equality, Public Comment to CA Instructional Quality Commission November 2020

“Critical race theory is ​not​ sound K-12 classroom pedagogy.

It​ ​divides people into oppressor and oppressed groups, creating a hostile and disempowering classroom environment for students. It is polarizing, not uniting, and makes group identity primary at the expense of individual achievement. ​

​Simply put, we are told to teach ​students to first label people by the color of their skin, and then condemn one group as being racist.”

“Critical race theory is not sound K-12 classroom pedagogy.

It divides people into oppressor and oppressed groups, creating a hostile and disempowering classroom environment for students. It is polarizing, not uniting, and makes group identity primary at the expense of individual achievement.

Simply put, we are told to teach students to first label people by the color of their skin, and then condemn one group as being racist.”