In the May meeting of the Policy Committee the Racial Equity Committee (REC) presented their most recent version of their Anti-racism policy proposal. The content included an initial 7 categories of activity the REC felt should be tracked in order to report on the outcomes by race.

Among the cuts to next year’s budget, funding that would have helped facilitate the request to video broadcast and archive the BOE Policy, Racial Equity, and Curriculum and Instruction committee meetings was voted down by the BOE on 5/18.

In the Policy Committee meeting of May 18th the newest version of the Racial Equity Committee’s Anti-Racism policy was reviewed. In that policy the definition of Racism is as follows: ”Racism is a complex system of beliefs and behaviors, grounded in a presumed superiority of the white race.”