Cherina Betters, the first chief of equity and access at San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, is using her experience in education to create a more diverse and inclusive environment for students and adults alike.

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Sacramento State University has been designated as California's first "Black-serving institution" by the California State Assembly, recognizing the university's commitment to serving its diverse student body, particularly Black students who account for six percent of the student population.

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Community members, the NAACP, LULAC, and CART joined the Perris Union High School District board meeting on May 15 to discuss the elimination of positions under the CARES teams and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Department, citing the California Department of Education's mandate to improve school suspension rates and the presence of existing funding for CARES personnel.

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The University of California, Riverside has renamed its annual Diversity Equity and Inclusion Colloquium to the UCR School of Medicine's J.W. Vines Diversity Equity and Inclusion Colloquium in recognition of the J.W. Vines Medical Society's advocacy and efforts to support Black physicians and medical students across the Inland Empire.

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The Perris Union High School District Board of Trustees voted 4-1 to eliminate 23 positions and dismiss employees from eight positions across the district, including social workers, behavior specialists, substance abuse interventionists and the director of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Department.

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66% of race-based hate incidents in U.S. schools targeted Black students, with the most common offenses being intimidation, destruction, damage or vandalism of personal property, and simple assault.

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The O'Day Short Family Unity Garden was established at Randall Pepper Elementary School in Fontana, CA, to commemorate the lives of O'Day Short and his family who were murdered by white racist extremists in 1946.

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Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed an amicus brief in support of a challenge to two Temecula Valley Unified School District enactments that violate students' constitutional and statutory rights, including a ban on inclusive curriculum and a forced outing policy.

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S. E. Williams Message from the editor:  On November 30, a federal judge ruled the Moreno Valley Unified School District broke the law and violated the American With Disabilities Act. […]

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