2260
M
The Board of
Education shall, in accordance with law, strive to overcome the effects of any
previous patterns of discrimination in school and classroom practices and shall
systematically monitor district procedures to ensure continuing compliance with
anti-discrimination laws and regulations.
The Chief
School Administrator shall designate an Affirmative Action Officer and he/she
shall coordinate all activities designed to implement this policy. The
Affirmative Action Officer shall identify and recommend the correction or
removal of impermissible bias based on race, color, creed, religion, national
origin, ancestry, age, marital status, affectational or sexual orientation or
sex, social or economic status, or disability. He/She shall:
1. Review
current and proposed curriculum guides, textbooks, and supplemental materials
for bias and determine whether such materials fairly depict the contribution of
both men and women and various racial and ethnic groups in the development of
human society;
2. Develop
an ongoing program of in-service training for school personnel designed to
identify and solve problems of bias in all aspects of the school program;
3. Review
current and proposed programs, activities, and practices to ensure that all
pupils have equal access to them and are not impermissibly segregated in any
duty, work, play, classroom, or school practice except as may be permitted
under rules of the State Board of Education;
4. Ensure
that similar aspects of the school program receive commensurate support as to
staff size and compensation, purchase and maintenance of facilities and
equipment, and access to such facilities and equipment;
5. Ensure
that tests, procedures, and guidance and counseling materials that are designed
to evaluate pupil progress or rate aptitudes, or analyze personality or in any
manner establish or tend to establish a category by which a pupil may be judged
are not impermissibly differentiated or stereotyped.
Parent(s) or
legal guardian(s), pupils, staff members, and members of the public shall be
informed annually about the district’s affirmative action plan for school and
classroom practices, the designation of the Affirmative Action Officer, and the
procedure by which an affirmative action complaint may be filed and
processed.
The Affirmative
Action Officer shall report as required to the Board on progress made in the
affirmative action program for school and classroom practices. The Board
will annually review district progress toward the objectives of any
state-approved affirmative action plan.
20 U.S.C.A.
1701
N.J.S.A.
18A:36-20
N.J.A.C.
6:4-1.3(b)
Adopted:
12 March 2007
Revised:
9 February 2009