Diversity, Equity, Inclusion materials
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| Submitted | Dec. 21, 2022 |
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Communications
From: The Parents Coalition
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 Croton-Harmon Board of Education, Croton-Harmon School District Administration, Croton-Harmon Equity Committee, 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 Croton-Harmon Board of Education, 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. It is requested all fees will be waived pursuant to the Department of Justice Fee Waiver Policy.
In the event that there are fees, we would be grateful if you would inform us of the total charges in advance of fulfilling this request. We 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,
The Parents Coalition
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following New York Freedom of Information Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on Dec. 21, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Croton-Harmon Union Free School District
It looks like this agency uploaded responsive documents to a portal or link sharing site. Our team is working on moving them over, so please check back soon.
To the Parent Coalition,
A formal response and related materials for the FOIL request relating to
Equity, are attached and have been uploaded to the link provided on the
original email.
Contract - Powerful Communications 2-3-22.pdf
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F1roQG2AQG5Sj3QOvZ84Of9oZtVbr94n/view?usp=drive_web>
Email correspondence Redacted.pdf
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Earturj379Ytc7mL9cGX77uS0XDTXsCF/view?usp=drive_web>
Equity Council) Training Session Agenda Session...
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b7KP2rS3Ua3URFigJKtvVylftAjmIwKj/view?usp=drive_web>
Equity Stakeholder #3 Agenda - 5_13_22.pdf
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/16GdAQE7E6WCW3nFxlDJE4N6vUgc8THNP/view?usp=drive_web>
Equity Stakeholder #4 Agenda - 6_06_22.pdf
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LBd6n89Mlr0mH5F4xumanPAc_FlNHznK/view?usp=drive_web>
Equity Stakeholder Agenda #2 - 4_25_22.pdf
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QvfOXmDdOVlpXq-LIZrEHFPwHPxyetJ8/view?usp=drive_web>
K12 - Equity.pdf
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZYJjDK2nShRMuBA2YY8FQrrKc_Rl-dW9/view?usp=drive_web>
Powerful Communications Agenda 3-28-22.pdf
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nH61p2rvXDSAhpDKMHvGXAH7P9KtrGGh/view?usp=drive_web>
Tracey Borges
District Clerk
Croton-Harmon Board of Education
914-271-4713 ex 4202
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From: Croton-Harmon Union Free School District
A formal response and related materials for the FOIL request relating to Equity, are attached and have been uploaded. There are links to meeting materials in the formal response letter as well.
From: The Parents Coalition
Thank you for your response. If possible, we would like to appeal the determination that all additional materials and correspondence related to this FOIL request are protected by the Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA"). There are lawful exceptions to FERPA whereby the requested information can be provided with minimal redactions. Additionally, the information provided does not appear to be the results of a thorough search based on the initial FOIL request parameters.
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