Exclusive | SFUSD paid ethnic studies consultants $400,000 while reading and math scores cratered

A broke school district shelled out nearly $400,000 to extreme ”ethnic studies” consultants obsessed with defunding the police and tearing down capitalism rather fixing the students’ appalling reading and math scores.The San Francisco Unified School District, which is facing school closures and a catastrophic budget deficit, has inked taxpayer-funded contracts with consultants Liberatory Visionaries Curricula, UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project, and organizations founded by Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, a radical activist who branded classrooms a “a battlefield” where teachers wage war.The district paid $260,000 for “professional development” sessions between 2022 and 2025 with a UC Berkeley project that hawks lessons on “divesting from systems of policing,” “drag pedagogy,” penning custom “land acknowledgments” for classrooms and making anti-capitalist signage as a classroom activity.Loopy lesson plans include a “10-step guide for designing political graphics” and an “Abolition and Disability Justice Course” that slams capitalism as “the true crisis.”Another contractor — Liberatory Visionaries Curricula, founded by Ashia Ojore Bomani, an ethnic studies consultant and ex-SFUSD teacher, according to her Linkedin — was paid $55,000 this fiscal year to shape San Francisco’s controversial ethnic studies curriculum.California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story One $10,000 contract approved in February promotes a fringe textbook she co-authored called “Carry On Tradition” which is described as a “history of righteous resistance and rebellion.”Critics have slammed the SFUSD’s ethnic studies courses as “unvetted and illegal.”SFUSD was placed under strict state oversight two years ago due to fiscal issue...