NATIONAL REVIEW
Segregated Staff Meetings at a Public Middle School
by Eli Steele and Beth Huestis Feeley
March 7, 2018

For the second time in recent months, principal Adrian Harries of Nichols Middle School in Evanston, Ill., instructed his staff to segregate themselves by race. His emails directed the “white” staff to room 126 and the “staff of color” to room 226. The basis for these segregated staff meetings was a racial-equity agenda calling for “courageous conversations” in which staff members could discuss their “racial awakening[s].” There was no mention of any educational innovations aimed at closing the profound achievement gap between white and black students. READ MORE