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Board tables revised curriculum regulation on "bias" after prolonged debate
Summary
Board members split over proposed changes to regulation 2200, which would require curriculum and materials to address bias and discrimination; trustees expressed concern that vague language could be interpreted to exclude canonical literature and asked policy committee for clearer, narrower language.
The Berkeley Heights Board of Education voted to table revisions to regulation 2200 (curriculum content) after a lengthy, sometimes heated debate about language on bias and discrimination.
Trustees who opposed the current draft warned the regulation's phrasing — which directs staff to "develop a process to address and eliminate any possible bias in the curriculum" — could be read to limit study of important but historically biased texts. "It's much better for kids to detect bias," board member Dr. Tom Forager…
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