During a board meeting on Tuesday, the board heard more than 20 new goals for its equity policy aimed to improve academics for students of color.
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The district is renewing its commitment to racial equity after the pandemic widened existing gaps across the community.
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The Jefferson County Board of Education heard the district’s multifaceted equity plan during a board meeting Tuesday.
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The ordinance asks Mayor Fischer for more walk, less talk.
Danelle Stevens-Watkins, assistant vice president for research in diversity and inclusion, is forming an advisory board of faculty members to create a research initiative to recruit and retain racially diverse faculty, staff and students and to invest in research focused on racial health equity, social justice and racial justice.
“Watching this case unfold and the largely peaceful protests in our city has had a profound effect on me,” Pollio said.
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A spokeswoman for Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron told WDRB Thursday that Cameron’s office is waiting for “additional testing and analysis from federal partners, including a ballistics test from the FBI crime lab.
The district will implement those changes in the next few years under its new strategic plan, said Superintendent Teresa Morgan.
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The residency program is the latest development in the district’s push to hire more minorities as teachers. Last month, JCPS unveiled a partnership with Simmons College of Kentucky for a one-year “transition to teaching” program for students at the historically black institution.
JCPS Superintendent Marty Pollio and other officials presented their first quarterly update on progress in the district’s Vision 2020 plan to the Jefferson County Board of Education.