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Board approves OE 6 monitoring report after discussion of staff diversity data and recruitment strategies
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The board approved the OE 6 Personnel Administration monitoring report after a presentation on staff diversity and recruiting challenges; administrators said applicant pools have increased but staff-of-color representation remains far below student demographics.
The Eau Claire Area School District Board of Education approved its OE 6 Personnel Administration monitoring report Wednesday after a staff presentation and board discussion on racial and other workforce diversity, applicant quality, and recruitment strategies.
Executive Director Michelle Golden led the presentation and flagged Indicator 4: candidate and staff diversity. Golden said applicant numbers for educators identifying as people of color have increased during the last few years but still fall well short of reflecting the student population. She cautioned that applicant-tracking data include multiple applications from the same person, global "spam" applications, and a "prefer not to say" response option that had…
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