California’s Reparations Task Force Committee is exploring a proposal to increase funding for Black students in public schools, a significant new conduit for reparations.
During the panel’s meetings in Sacramento earlier this month — and nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom tasked the panel with developing recommendations for Black residents affected by the legacy of slavery — the task force heard a presentation on how reparations could be leveraged to bolster school funding.
Margaret Fortune, president and CEO of Fortune School of Education, which operates 10 public charter schools in California, proposed that Black children should be added to the local control funding formula, or the LCFF, money generated based on enrollment of high-needs students including English language learners, low-income students and foster youth.
