Berkeley school district Reparations Task Force recommends financial, educational reparations
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The Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, Reparations Task Force has recommended both financial and educational reparations for students who are descendants of chattel slavery in a report at the BUSD school board meeting Wednesday.
The task force has recommended three types of reparations to the district: harm reports, curricula changes and financial payments that will go toward students’ education. The recommended funding for the reparations would derive from donations, tax measures and lawsuits against companies and organizations whose historical actions have decreased funding for BUSD.
“We were recommending that (BUSD has) the financial payments go through an organization like the Berkeley Public Schools Fund because the district itself would have complications in giving out direct financial payments,” said co-chair of the Reparations Task Force Adena Ishii.
Ishii added that the district would have to do more research in order to effectively integrate the educational reparations into the curriculum, including incorporating reparations into the existing ethnic studies curriculum.
The task force recommended creating a harm report to record the forgotten harms BUSD has caused, including the impacts of segregation, discriminatory policies and legacies of chattel slavery within BUSD.
The task force surveyed community members, all of who agreed incorporating the...
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