Riverside County Office of Education Blitz for Access/Control of Families Through Community Schools/HealthCare

Non-Profits Rake in Millions.

Dec 31, 2024

The Riverside County Office of Education (RCOE) is blitzing students, parents and families, teachers and administrators, and anyone else they can get ahold of, with propaganda and indoctrination to gain control of families, vis a vis controlling their healthcare and other basic services. The disinformation blitz, to convince communities that schools should be the center of the universe and in charge of essential services and dogma, is coming in from multiple angles. The common factors (key words) are equity, community schools, and healthcare. Three of the angles include RCOE sponsored: Family Engagement Network (FEN)-includes meetings, workshops, and conferences for educators and parents; the yearly Excellence through Equity conference; and an Ethnic Studies conference. All of which spew the Marxist dogma of equity, oppression, inclusiveness, and diversity.

Let’s take a closer look at the FEN and the Equity conference. For a deeper dive simply peruse the ‘Leadership, Wellness, and Student Services’ department on the RCOE website. Yes, that is a staffed department at the RCOE, led by an administrator, and includes sub-departments like ‘Equity and Inclusion’ also staffed and led by administrators (Ed.D. holders).

If we browse through enough RCOE pages and documents we can see the insidious pattern to control community behavior and thought through control of housing, healthcare, and other basic services. All in the name of the Cult of Equity and at the taxpayer expense.

RCOE Five Initiatives

The fearless leader of the RCOE, Dr. Edwin Gomez, has a platform of “Five Initiatives” for Riverside County school districts, two of which pertain to education. The five initiatives are:

1. Foster Youth Success
2. Equity and Inclusive Practices
3. Mental Health
4. Financial Literacy
5. Literacy by the 5^th grade.

Since educators should want all students to succeed, the underwhelming literacy initiatives are the only ones that school districts should be concerned about.

In any case, the RCOE posits that its Family Engagement Network (FEN) align to Dr. Gomez’s initiatives, thus justifying a program of little educational value. RCOE argues that schools play a “pivotal role of meaningful family engagement in driving school improvement and enhancing student achievement.” RCOE further attests that “when families are active participants in decision-making, the educational experience becomes more relevant, meaningful, and tailored to the diverse needs of our students and communities.”

Neighborhood Healthcare

Neighborhood Healthcare is a registered non-profit organization (EIN: 95-2796316), based in San Diego, California, which has received tens of millions of dollars from the U.S. taxpayer, and enjoys limitless liability/malpractice insurance from us as well.

According to Neighborhood Healthcare’s 2023 IRS Form 990 filing, the CEO Rakesh Patel draws a salary of $612,196 a year. Seven other board members of Neighborhood Healthcare pull salaries of between $386,000 and $604,000. In 2023, Neighborhood Healthcare reported $186,059,856 total revenue, $26,734,165 after expenses, and net assets of $143,858,790.

Additionally, Neighborhood Healthcare reported receiving government grants totaling $19,568,334. An amount confirmed by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA).

According to the HRSA, recognized facilities such as Neighborhood Healthcare, are considered employees of the government.

“Under the Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Acts of 1992 and 1995,¹ health centers that receive funds through the Health Center Program² may be deemed as employees of the Public Health Service (PHS) for purposes of Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) coverage for the performance of medical, surgical, dental, and related functions within the scope of employment. The Health Center FTCA Program increases the availability of funds to health centers to provide services within the Health Center Program scope of project by reducing or eliminating health centers spending on malpractice insurance premiums for such services.”

While Neighborhood Healthcare, a non-profit, is raking in the taxpayer's money, the Val Verde School District shelled out up to $500,000 for the FE-CRLC, according to district records.

Before we move on, It should be noted that the Val Verde school district is a hot-mess when it comes to Equity. Furthermore, in another example of involving itself in non-educational activities, the FE-CRLC takes an active role in advising illegal immigrants how to avoid detection. Would the RCOE and FE-CRLC administrators be nervous if they knew Tom Homan, President Trump’s soon-to-be Director of ICE, who has made clear he will arrest officials that impede his mission, receives a copy of this article? No, I doubt they would worry about Mr. Homan reading little ‘ole me.

Excellence Through Equity Conference

Another line of attack on the American family by RCOE, lies in the annual Excellence Through Equity Conference hosted by the RCOE at a cost of at least $500 per person. In fact, item 13.1 of the Coachella Valley Unified School district’s November 11, 2024, meeting shows they purchased eleven tickets for the 2025 Excellence through Equity conference, at prices that ranged from $510 to $918.

Information available from the 2024 conference further illustrates the RCOE control agenda through equity and Community Schools. The titles of sessions range from leveraging the hiring process to transform schools for equity, to equitable discipline in pre-school, to creating inclusive environments for LGBTQ+, to examining curriculum for “undercover inequity.”

In one session, on leveraging hiring practices for equity, the presenters, Tess Ormseth and Marceline DuBose, from Due East Educational Equity Collaborative, argued that districts should re-write job descriptions to filter out anyone but those that adhere to the principles of the equity cult. Specifically, the duo looked to inform:

1. Where to recruit diverse and equity-grounded staff

2. How to write better interview questions

3. How to prioritize equity through the hiring process

DuBose and Ormseth defined a diverse candidate as every intersectionality under the sun with the exception of diversity of thought or political beliefs. The term equity-grounded candidate was defined to mean that “equity must be the core of all education practices.” It was further posited that a candidate could NOT be considered highly-qualified without holding equity true and dear.

DuBose and Ormseth recommended that district personnel departments rewrite job descriptions to include that candidates must “…interrupt and dismantle privilege inequities” and that student’s adherence to equity was more important than grade-level performance. A point that will be illustrated by another session pushing community schools.

Would anyone be surprised if I revealed that Due East Educational Equity Collaborative includes supporters of the Marxist-terrorist organization Black Lives Matter, which caused nearly $2 billion dollars of destruction during the 2020 insurrection riots? True story, that particular person also wrote a blog on the Due East website titled “Schools Commit Spirit Murder Against Black Children.”

Keep in mind that the RCOE runs this show.

Equitable Discipline Practices

A session titled Building Equitable Discipline Practices with Intentionality was presented by RCOE Director of Pupil and Administrative Services, Elizabeth Bartholomew. The session presentation can be downloaded, but the underlying purpose was to advocate for Community Schools and restorative justice. Junk studies were presented to show that exclusionary discipline, what we normies know as punishing bad behavior so it isn’t repeated (accountability), is rooted in deterrence theory and is very bad for society.

Bartholomew presented, without evidence, that a K-8 Community School in the Adelanto Elementary School District (AESD) was a success in transforming students that were two years behind (at time of enrollment) to grade-level performance within one school year. The metrics used were iready, iXL, and STAR.

The school was not identified, but there is only one K-8 school in the AESD and that is El Mirage school. However, according to the California School Dashboard, El Mirage was 114.2 points below standard in English Language Arts and 155.8 points below standard in mathematics in 2023.

The “success” of El Mirage was used to further argue for access to families in their homes and for more community schools.

Bird Dog Foundation

It is clear that the RCOE is in dire need of a local DOGE. The waste, the indoctrination, the off education mission, the administrative bloat, all need to be gutted from budget of the RCOE. Do we even need the RCOE, if you read my book (The Other Side of the Lunch Table) then you know how dastardly the RCOE can be to any they consider beyond the reach of the cult.

It is also clear that there is a dire need in Riverside County communities for Queen Organizations to fight against this rot. There are many lone wolves out there, me included, but lone wolves cannot fight effectively. Perhaps common sense conservatives need to form their own non-profits to amass the resources for legal fees and parent institutions. Parent institutions could convey information such as American First Legal’s Parent Toolkits.

Kenny, from the Tavern.

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