Radical Agenda? Here's What Josh Shapiro's Adviser Is PUSHING For!

By Alan Hume | Saturday, 19 October 2024 05:15 AM
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Sharif El-Mekki, a former educator and current advisor to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, is a prominent figure in the education sector.

He is also a member of the Black Panther Party. El-Mekki is the founder of a nonprofit organization, the Center for Black Educator Development (CBED), which has attracted nearly $20 million in donations. The organization's mission is to promote racially exclusive classrooms, a move that some critics have likened to a modern form of segregation.

According to The Post Millennial, El-Mekki established CBED in 2019, with a vision of creating an educational environment where black students are taught by high-quality, same-race teachers. The organization also advocates for teachers to adopt anti-racist mindsets.

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The Free Press reports that CBED has trained thousands of teachers across the country in "education activism," a movement aimed at challenging what the organization perceives as the inherent racism within the American education system. CBED's materials, including “The Anti-Racist Guide to Teacher Retention,” were developed in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Education. These materials present education as a political act with the potential to dismantle white supremacy and counteract the oppressive use of education throughout history.

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"Every lesson plan is a political document, and every classroom interaction a political statement,” the guide asserts.

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CBED's funding, which approaches $20 million, includes contributions from notable left-wing organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. In 2023, El-Mekki reportedly received a salary of $233,410 from the nonprofit.

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Dr. Mika Hackner, a senior research associate at the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, has voiced concerns about El-Mekki's approach. “He started up this organization, which on paper sounds like a really wonderful endeavor, getting more black teachers in the classroom,” Hackner told the Free Press. “But if you scratch beneath the surface—not even beneath the surface, it’s on their website—he’s propagating some pretty dangerous and divisive ideas.”

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Hackner further suggested that El-Mekki's actions essentially amount to “bringing in segregation by a different and more socially and politically acceptable name.”

El-Mekki's radical activism roots can be traced back to his childhood. He attended a Black-Panther-inspired "freedom school," and both of his parents were members of the Black Panther Party. El-Mekki is even pictured on the nonprofit’s website wearing a Black Panther shirt.

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El-Mekki lived in Iran during his middle school years, where his mother, a Muslim convert, relocated the family. She wanted her children to "witness a country united in its efforts to make a change," according to a biography published in 2020. El-Mekki has since praised the Iranian education system, particularly its focus on producing engineers, doctors, and scientists.

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Despite his radical views, El-Mekki’s organization has received over half a million dollars in contracts from the Philadelphia School District over the past two years. CBED runs a summer program designed to teach a “culturally responsive, affirming, and sustaining early-literacy curriculum” to address “educational inequalities and our nation’s racist history.” The organization is also expanding its influence beyond Pennsylvania, having secured contracts with school districts in California, Texas, and New York.

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