School board moves closer to finish line on anti-racism policy
Sept. 29—Members of the Frederick County Board of Education on Wednesday discussed their vision for the system’s policy on racism.
The current draft policy is four pages long and outlines how Frederick County Public Schools should handle racial bias on an individual and systemic level. It calls on board members to “engage in regular, candid and action-oriented discussions of race and racial inequities in FCPS”; and covers issues from hiring and training to data collection to curriculum.
The proposed title of the policy has switched back and forth between “Anti-Racism” and “Addressing and Eliminating Racism.”
It was initially written in