PEORIA, Ariz — The governing board for a West Valley school district has approved a policy prohibiting the adoption or promotion of “diversity, equity and inclusion frameworks.”
On Nov. 13, the Peoria Unified School District Governing Board voted 4-1 to adopt a second read of a policy statement promising to not advance DEI as an “ideological or prescriptive framework.”
The district’s policy defines DEI as a framework that “prioritizes identity-based characteristics (such as race, gender, or ethnicity) over merit, competence, and individual ability.”…