File: JB
SHUTESBURY SCHOOL COMMITTEE
EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
In recognition of the
diversified characteristics and needs of our students and with the keen desire
to be responsive to them, the School Committee will make every effort to
protect the dignity of the students as individuals. It also will offer
careful consideration and sympathetic understanding of their personal feelings,
particularly with reference to their race, color, sex, gender identity,
religion, national origin, sexual orientation, homeless status, physical and
intellectual differences, pregnancy or pregnancy related condition.
To accomplish this,
the Committee and its staff will make every effort to comply with the letter
and the spirit of the Massachusetts equal educational opportunities law which
prohibits discrimination in public school admissions and programs.
This will mean that
every student will be given equal opportunity in school admission, admissions
to courses, course content, support services, and extracurricular and athletic
activities.
All implementing
provisions issued by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in
compliance with this law will be followed.
SOURCE: MASC February
2019
LEGAL REFS.:
Title VI, Civil Rights Act of 1964
Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
Executive Order 11246, as amended by E.O.
11375
Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972
M.G.L. 76:5; 76:16 (Chapter 622 of the Acts of 1971)
BESE regulations 603 CMR 26:00
BESE regulations 603 CMR 28.00
The McKinney-Vento Act and Title I Part A, as
Amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015
CROSS
REF.: AC, Nondiscrimination
NOTE: The cross reference is to a related statement in
this manual.
Edited by Shutesbury Policy
Committee: 12-17-20
First Reading by
Shutesbury School Committee: 1-21-21
Second Reading,
First Vote by Shutesbury School Committee:
02-25-21
Final
Vote by Shutesbury School Committee:
03-18-21