By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-19 06:51:59 | Updated at 2024-10-19 09:29:59
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'Extremist' black nationalist education boss backed by Bill Gates gets $20M to bring 'segregation' in US schools
The Daily Mail ^ | 16 Oct 2024 | Germania Rodriguez Poleo, Chief U.S. Reporter
Posted on 10/18/2024 11:45:38 PM PDT by blueplum
A radical activist who believes black students should only be taught by same-race teachers has received $20million from billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
Sharif El-Mekki has lobbied for a focus on anti-racism education in public schools through his prominent nonprofit and time as an adviser to Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, as reported by The Free Press.
A former middle and high school teacher, El-Mekki lobbies through his nonprofit, the Center for Black Educator Development, CBED, which describes its mission as a 'world where... all black students are taught by high-quality, same-race teachers...
Other donors of the foundation include NBC Universal, Nike, the Bezos Family Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania School of Education.
CBED has also secured at least $560,000 in contracts with the Philadelphia School District to 'address educational inequalities and our nation's racist history.'...
El-Mekki, who makes $233,410 a-year from the organization, comes from a family of radical activists.
His parents were also members of the Black Panthers and moved to Iran when he was in middle school after his ...mother Aisha El-Mekki converted to Islam
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Iran; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colleges; education; elmekki; foreigninfluences; racism
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Iranian influence in US schools compliments of NBC, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and others
1 posted on 10/18/2024 11:45:38 PM PDT by blueplum
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