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TUSD board moves specific mascot examples to administrative rules, expands nondiscrimination language
Summary
Trustees debated whether to single out Native American mascot terms in the district nondiscrimination policy; they directed staff to move specific example language into administrative regulations, amended the policy to add 'ethnically' alongside 'racially', and adopted the revised policy language and waived second reading.
The Torrance Unified School District board on Sept. 8 debated revisions to board policy BP 0410b on nondiscrimination and whether to include explicit examples of derogatory Native American mascots.
One trustee said the early paragraph already requires district programs and activities be free of 'any racially derogatory or discriminatory' names and asked why the policy singled out a single ethnicity. Others…
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