Chicago City Wire

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will once again retain Glenn E. Singleton to teach its white teachers how to better understand their “whiteness,” and to properly teach black students.

Singleton’s Pacific Educational Group, Inc. (PEG)  has a $250,000 contract for another year consulting CPS, effective April 1.

According to the contract, PEG is providing “Race and Equity Training Services” to various Chicago Public Schools’ leaders, district leaders and district staff.

“Vendor will.. address issues of race in personal, professional and organizational contexts and examine policy, culture, climate, social norms, curriculum, academics, discipline and aspects of the system that support and nurture each student,” the contract says.

Singleton owns 100 percent of PEG, according to a disclosure in the CPS contract.

PEG instructs that teachers who assign independent classroom assignments or plan ahead are showing bias and “cultural racism,” benefiting white students over black ones who don’t believe in “individualism” or  what Singleton calls “future time orientation.”

“It is our belief that the most devastating factor contributing to the lowered achievement of students of color is institutionalized racism,” Singleton wrote in a book he co-authored. “We will shine the light on racial dominance to uncover how Whiteness challenges the performance of students of color while shaping and reinforcing the racial perspective of white children.”

Singleton explains that “white talk” is “verbal, impersonal, intellectual” and “task-oriented,” versus the “nonverbal, personal, emotional” and “process-oriented” style of blacks and Hispanics.

PEG seminars are intended to get teachers to “come to recognize that race impacts every aspect of your life 100 percent of the time.”

Whites will experience “anger, guilt, and shame... as they move toward a greater understanding of (their) Whiteness,” Singleton teaches.

New Trier High School District paid PEG $90,000 from 2011 to 2016, according to a 2017 report in North Cook News.

CPS paid PEG $250,000 last school year as well to perform the same services.