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Decades of social-science research confirm that the biggest predictors of school achievement are family structure effects – family composition, stability, maternal education and socioeconomic status. These have nothing to do with entrenched systems of power and privilege, and everything to do with factors such as having two parents and close parental supervision. Sad to say, not all the anti-bias training in the world is going to change that.
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Here is where the article misses the point. Socioeconomic status, family stability, maternal education etc have everything to do with the entrenched systems of power and refusing to recognize that in education and providing more resources to lower performing groups would be a mistake.
However the actions of desegregation of streams and other changes don't make sense as a solution to the identified problem. It's basically affirmative action taken to a perverse conclusion.