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Speakers urge equity safeguards as Alachua board walks through broad statutory policy changes
Summary
Community speakers at the Jan. 12 Alachua County School Board workshop warned that recent statutory updates'from arrests-based self-reporting to streamlined rulemaking'risk disproportionate harm to Black educators and students and urged race-disaggregated reporting and equity reviews.
Members of the public used the board's public-comment period at the Jan. 12 workshop to press the Alachua County School Board to add equity protections to a slate of statutorily driven policy changes.
Dr. Michael Buoy, speaking for the Beta Pi chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, told the board that changes to bylaws and program policies could "disproportionately exclude black educators and leaders" and that efficiency in rulemaking should not come at the…
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