PRESS
RELEASE
310.450.8338, ext. 70229 18 NOV 2011
SMMUSD ACCEPTING
APPLICATIONS TO intercultural equity & excellence District advisory
committee
At its
board meeting on November 17, the Board of Education reconstituted the
Intercultural District Advisory Committee (DAC) and directed the
superintendent’s office to solicit applications for community members to serve
on the committee.
Applications
to serve on this committee can be found in English and Spanish at http://www.smmusd.org/DAC/index.html
or in the superintendent’s office (
Reconstituting the Intercultural DAC, which has a temporary name of the
Intercultural Equity and Excellence DAC, is part of the school district’s
response to the May 2011 racial incident that took place at
The
board charged the committee with the follow directives:
·
Support the district’s work of closing the achievement gap by
assisting in the identification and elimination of inequities in educational
processes and outcomes of underserved students in district schools.
·
Serve as a vehicle for parents, community, and students to communicate
with the Board on matters related to the successful participation in the
educational process of students and parents who come from diverse
socio-economic, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds or from the LGBTQ community.
·
Provide a forum for the articulation of ideas and activities being
implemented in the district, school sites, and the greater community that are
successfully meeting the needs of our diverse student and parent population.
·
Provide input on district and school site efforts to facilitate
the building of bridges of understanding between diverse student and parent
populations so that all groups feel connected to, and part of the school
community.
·
Monitor
the implementation of an inclusive curriculum, including ethnic studies and
learning experiences designed to eliminate racism and discrimination.
·
Work collaboratively with other advisory committees as
appropriate.
·
Report to the Board annually on the scope of their work, and
recommendations that are developed relative to their charge.
Additionally,
the board provided staff with the following guidelines for the committee’s
composition:
·
In
accordance with District guidelines, there shall be a minimum of seven and
maximum of nineteen active members.
·
Up
to three positions will be held by site staff. The Superintendent or designee will
work with site administrators to encourage district employees to apply to serve
on the committee. The board will appoint
employees to the committee taking into account school levels, experience and/or
expertise, and diversity of geographic location.
·
Community
organizations whose charges intersect directly with the core work of this
advisory committee will be invited to designate a representative to serve.
These organizations include, but are not limited to, the Santa Monica-Venice
Branch of the NAACP,
The DAC
will be governed by the guidelines prescribed in Board Policy and
Administrative Regulation 1220.
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MONICA-MALIBU UNIFIED
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