Understand and Engage the New HCPSS Equity Policy (Online)

Program Type:

Community Events

Age Group:

Teens, Adults
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Event Details

Learn about Howard County Public School System’s new educational equity policy (Policy 1080) and hear a panel of community leaders reflect on the need for more educational equity in Howard County. Explore ways to stay involved with policy implementation and educational equity issues more broadly. Includes time for Q&A.  

Board of Education Chair Mavis Ellis frames the policy, then Policy Director Dr. Cherise Hunter and Razia Kosi, Facilitator in the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, discuss what is in the policy, implementation, and how to stay involved.

HCLS President & CEO Tonya Aikens moderates the panel, which includes:

  • Prince Achoronye, Hoco For Justice, recent HCPSS grad
  • Dawnette Banks, PhD, Equity4HC
  • Amy Brooks, OMO, HCPSS instructor, and parent
  • David Koralov, Howard County Racial Equity Taskforce, Howard Progressive Project, current HCPSS student
  • Tracey Williams, African American Community Roundtable, HCPSS pupil personnel worker

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