• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Public School Forum

Public School Forum

A think-and-do tank committed to North Carolina public schools

  • Who We Are
    • Our Mission
    • Our Team
    • Our Board of Directors & Advisory Members
    • Work with Us
  • Our Centers
    • Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity
    • NC Center for Afterschool Programs
    • NC Resilience and Learning Project
  • Our Programs
    • Rural Teacher Leader Network
    • Education Policy Fellowship Program
    • Education Matters
    • NC Education Partners
  • News
    • Latest News
    • Op-Eds & Analysis
  • Resources
    • Policy Analysis, Briefs, and Research
    • Newsletters
  • Events
    • Eggs & Issues Breakfast
    • Jay Robinson Education Leadership Award & Gala
    • Synergy
    • Color of Education
    • Education Primer Sessions
    • All Upcoming Events
  • Donate
  • Our Partners
    • Forum Partners Program
    • Our Supporters
    • Donate

Subscribe to Our Newsletters

Subscribe to the following newsletters:(Required)
Name(Required)
Email(Required)

Get Connected with an Expert

Name(Required)
What area(s) of expertise are you seeking?

Elevating racial equity as an education imperative

October 18, 2016 by Forum Admin

This is the third in a series of five articles on expanding educational opportunity in North Carolina on Education NC, culminating in the release of the Public School Forum’s Study Group XVI final report — Expanding Educational Opportunity in North Carolina: Action Plan and Recommendations. The author served as one of the co-chairs of the Study Group’s Committee on Racial Equity, along with Deena Hayes-Greene of the Greensboro-based Racial Equity Institute.

Neither a conversation nor any real meaningful planning can take place around expanding educational opportunity in North Carolina without addressing issues of equitable access of ALL students to a quality education. In the soon to be released action plan and recommendations by the Public School Forum of North Carolina’s Study Group XVI, titled Expanding Educational Opportunity in North Carolina, committee members focused their collective expertise on three areas: Trauma & Learning, Racial Equity, and Low Performing Schools. Taking a student-centered approach, the Racial Equity Committee bravely tackled race and racism as an underlying issue to inequities and lack of access by students of color in North Carolina.

 

In addressing the issue of racial equity, members of the Public School Forum Board of Directors, along with Forum staff, solicited committee membership by education stakeholders from across the state of North Carolina to look at racial inequities. More than 60 individuals — including active and retired public school teachers and administrators, college and university staff and faculty, various governmental agency staff, as well as a number of individuals affiliated with nonprofit community organizations — joined the Racial Equity Committee. As one might imagine, given a group of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences, the ideas on race and educational inequities were varied and yet vital to approaching and addressing such a sensitive, yet oftentimes charged topic.

 READ MORE >

Category iconIn the News Tag iconracial equity

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Footer

Contact

1017 Main Campus Drive
Suite 2300
Raleigh, NC 27606
919-781-6833
info@ncforum.org

Recent Tweets

RT @DudleyFloodCtr Join our team! twitter.com/theNCForum/sta…

About 2 days ago

#NCEd Many North Carolina principals are concerned about a change in how principal pay is calculated included in the recently passed state budget which may decrease their salaries by $7,000 to $18,000 effective Jan. 1. ednc.org/an-overlooked-…

About 3 days ago

Last week the Madison County School System announced plans to put AR-15 rifles in safes in every school within the county. "I do not want to have to run back out to the car to grab an AR [in the event of an emergency]," said Sheriff Buddy Harwood. #NCEd cbsnews.com/news/ar-15s-ev…

About 3 days ago

Check it out! Tonight @ 7pm, a documentary by @EveryChildNC and @wnstory entitled 'The Untold Story of the North Carolina Constitution.' #nced twitter.com/wnstory/status…

About 4 days ago

RT @DudleyFloodCtr We are excited to announce the #COE2022 keynote speaker, Dr. Jelani Cobb! Join us as we take a walk through history & explore how the past informs the present. We will focus on developing action-oriented approaches for achieving RE in NC edu. #nced #FloodEquity #HistoryCounts pic.twitter.com/FOY64ppNUs

About 4 days ago

Follow @thencforum

Our Mission

For more than 30 years the Public School Forum of North Carolina has served as an indispensable and nonpartisan champion of better schools. We bring together individuals and institutions from business, education and government to study education issues, develop ideas, seek consensus, and ultimately inform and shape education policy.

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Copyright © 2022 · Public School Forum of North Carolina

All Rights Reserved · Website by Tomatillo Design