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Board approves Priority 4 edits after Equity Task Force rewrites goals on discipline, attendance and family engagement
Summary
After a year of work by an Equity Task Force, the board approved amendments to Priority 4 of the district strategic plan to reduce out-of-school suspensions, lower chronic absenteeism and expand family engagement and school-based mental-health work.
The Orange County Schools Board of Education voted to approve amendments to Priority 4 of the district strategic plan after staff and community members presented a rewrite developed with the Equity Task Force. The changes revise goals and action steps on disproportionality in discipline, chronic absenteeism, family engagement and school-based mental health.
Dr. Lanier and members of the Equity Task Force told the board the effort combined an equity lens, data analysis and community feedback gathered over multiple working sessions. Dr. Lanier reviewed Policy Code 1030, "Equity in Education," and explained the task force used that policy as part of its framework. He described three decision lenses—equity, data, and community—that guided revisions to Priority 4.
The nut graf: the revised…
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