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School Board Retroactively Renews Anti-Bigotry Plan

The district's Comprehensive Equity Plan was first implemented in 2007.

From 2007 through 2010, the Parsippany-Troy Hills school district was governed officially by a state-mandated Comprehensive Equity Plan designed to ensure that there is equity in New Jersey schools. The Board of Education at its Tuesday meeting at Parsippany Hills High School voted to continue the plan to cover 2010-13.

The plan is the district's statement that it will achieve and maintain compliance with all state laws governing fairness in schools, has conducted an assessment of equality and equity goals at each township school and will correct any form of discrimination found occurring in the district.

Though the plan technically expired in 2010, it continued to govern district operations, Superintendent of Schools LeRoy Seitz explained to Patch. He said the board was voting to roll over the CEP in a sort of retroactive renewal at the behest of the state Department of Education.

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The CEP was developed by the district's Affirmative Action Team; administrators at Eastlake Elementary School, Brooklawn Middle School and Parsippany Hills High; and the president of the local Parent-Teacher Association Council.

As part of the process of ensuring compliance, the district was charged with identifying and addressing all forms of prejudice and discrimination in all district school programs, practices, curricula, instructional materials and assessments. The idea, according to the CEP, is to ensure equal access to all students, regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender, religion, disability or socioeconomic status.

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The plan also includes a provision that parents and community members may access staff development offerings designed to identify and resolve problems created by bias-motivated inequities.


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