It's been racist since the achievement gap was first discovered. The first solution, Common Core, was designed to retard the naturally capable kids learning to close this, while simultaneously putting the burden of teaching the naturally retarded kids on the capable kids. This is just a repackaging.

Really, though, it's about conditioning kids to reject individualism in favor of collectivism, because this is still part of a century old attempt to subvert the pinnacle of captialism and Western achievement.

E: poorly worded sentence