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Exploiting Equity

How the Pioneer Institute Co-opts the Concept of Social Justice
Published on
April 4, 2019
Last Updated
September 26, 2024

This report demonstrates how three of the Pioneer Institute’s leading claims that their education reforms create greater equity in schools are not only unfounded but that these reforms disproportionately harm communities of color and immigrant communities.

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Jessica is a strategic researcher who feels empowered when she can elucidate systems of oppression in order to upend them. She is a former research fellow with PRA. She is proud to have worked alongside labor unions, environmental justice organizations, and community organizations in Massachusetts, New York, and California supporting organizing campaigns and progressive political reform at city and state levels. She also finds joy when she can cook for others as a means of fostering community and solidarity.