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June 24, 2020 — Meeting Transcript

This is a transcript of the Clayton School District Board of Education meeting held June 24, 2020. Excerpts show board members opening the virtual meeting (pledge of allegiance), recognizing students/staff, and discussing drafting a resolution and next steps on addressing racial equity and curriculum issues. The board debated whether to wordsmith the resolution now or form a smaller ad hoc group; they agreed to form such a subgroup and the motion to do so passed (no recorded opposing votes in the excerpt).
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In our strategic plan, we talk about an evergreen model and that we're going to keep coming back, keep coming back. We have to do that about our work with anti-racism. As we said, the board advisory is something that I think is going to be a way for us to get different voices from the community and making sure we have black voices on that advisory to help monitor and inform and also to hold us accountable to the goals that we establish. And I also think it's important for us just to have a mechanism for people to talk. We talked about engaging a third party to evaluate the systems and look at it. And I think that we can continue to do that, but I think that, and I've shared this with the board is that I think our actual next step is that when we're looking at our goals, we have to look at what resources we're putting towards those goals to be successful. And so I'm going to recommend that we develop a job description for someone who's going to be dedicated to help leading this work and have a coordinator position in the district. I think that that would allow us to have leadership and dedicated person to it. But I also am cautious in saying that that doesn't mean that's the only person doing the work in our district.

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