She told parents via email:
Dear CHS Families:
Thank you for the many emails and questions about the incidents of racism and bias last week in the SOMS and CHS communities. Many CHS students spoke at our Board of Education meeting last
week about racism and their experiences in our schools. Their words
were powerful and will shape work already underway – but nowhere near
finished - in our schools.
This Friday, I am participating in a roundtable discussion in Washington, DC with the US Secretary of Education,
Dr. John King, and a small group of other school principals from around
the country. I am taking the video clips of the student voices and
their written comments with me to share with the group and will leave
them with Dr. King for his continued use, as well. The work still ahead
for our school and communities around issues of social justice, race,
equal rights, and access to full educational and economic opportunity is
very much part of the work Dr. King has been engaged in since being
sworn in just a few months ago. I am proud to be able to bring
Columbia’s student voices to him to deepen his knowledge of our school,
our successes and the work still to do.
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