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Residents and a board member urge Bethel Park SD to keep equity focus as plan is revised
Summary
Residents urged the Bethel Park School District to restore six strategic-plan 'buckets' and retain the Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (EIB) task-force name after draft revisions condensed goals and removed an explicit DEI bucket; a board member backed their appeal and invited colleagues to attend task-force meetings.
At the Bethel Park School District board meeting, two residents and a board member urged the board to restore a previously adopted equity-focused element in the district’s strategic plan and to retain the task force name that references equity and inclusion.
Pam Dobis, speaking during public comment, asked the board “to restore the 6 buckets to the revised strategic plan and to retain the name of the EIB task force.” She said, “To eliminate the bucket of diversity, equity, and inclusion is insulting…
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