Diversity, Equity, Inclusion materials (South Colonie Central School District)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the New York Freedom of Information Law, I hereby request the following records:

All materials and correspondence between the district Board of Education, district Administration, district Equity Committee or Office, Faculty, Staff, Third Party Contractors and Consultants related to the following terms, subjects or concepts between April 2021 to the date this request is fulfilled:

Race
Anti-racism
Racism
Equity
Culturally Responsive
Decolonize
Diversity
Implicit Bias
Intersectionality
Microaggression
Oppression
Patriarchy
People of Color
Privilege(d)
Safe Space
Social Justice
Tokenism
White Supremacy

This request shall also include any teachings of such curriculum mentioned above by any faculty employed within the school district, third party contractors, consultants or other third parties invited by the school or agents of the school.

This request shall also include any documents or materials accessed by the school district, but stored on third party service providers on behalf of the district, and links/references/credentials for access to such materials if present in emails or electronic systems or files stored in browser caches, cloud storage (i.e. Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc), or local hard drives managed by the district. This request shall also include non-school email and texting services used by the district, board, administration and faculty to conduct activities and business related to the school district (i.e. Gmail, Outlook, etc).

This request shall also include any training material or supplemental information provided to district staff, whether required or suggested.

Please keep in mind, pursuant to the Retention and Disposition Schedule for New York Local Government Records (LGS-01): Any record listed in the LGS-01 Schedule for which a Freedom of Information (FOIL) request has been received should not be destroyed until that request has been answered and until any potential appeal is made and resolved, even if the retention period of the record has passed.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 5 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Jackson Parker

Thank you for your response to my recent FOIL request. I understand that my original request was too broad, and I appreciate your guidance in narrowing down the scope.

I would like to refine my request to focus on any communications or notes from "Equity Officers Meetings" with Capital Region BOCES, specifically any meetings where Tim Fowler from your district was present and received materials before, during or after the meetings. Additionally, I am requesting any training materials and agreements with training providers including but not limited to "Progression Partners" or other organizations.

I am also seeking any documents that refer to "Grading for Equity", communications including Adrienne Leon from Capital Region BOCES, documents with reference to CR-S (aka Framework on Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education), DEI Training materials, professional development materials inclusive of the list of keywords mentioned in the initial request.

Furthermore, I am requesting any communications between your district equity officer(s) and the contacts I have listed below which include statistical, factual, or other data. The contacts are as follows:

Frank Macri, Voorheesville
Adrienne Leon, Director of Communications
Kelly Masline, Director of ESS
Karen Conroy, Voorheesville
Allan Gadsen, Watervliet
Bonnie Kane, Berne-Knox-Westerlo
Dacey Bonney, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake
Peggy O’Shea, Cohoes
James Niedermeier, Duanesburg
Latisha Barnett, Niskayuna
Brian Bailey, Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk CSD
Frank Engelhardt, Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk
Daniel Kalbfliesh, Green Island
Matthew Pinchinat, Guilderland
Maureen Long, Menands
Alecia Holt, North Colonie
Tom Reardon, Schalmont
Carrie Styles, Schoharie
Rebecca Carmen, Shenendehowa
Tim Fowler, South Colonie
Carlos Cotto, Schenectady
If there are any additional categories that would help narrow the request down further, please let me know.

This information above serves to narrow the broad scope in the earlier email, and is not a new request.

Thank you again for your assistance in this matter. I look forward to your response within the statutory time frame.