JCPS racial-equity update calls for goals in every school’s improvement plan

What happened

A Nov. 10 board presentation outlines a districtwide racial-equity approach requiring each school to set Opportunity and Access goals in its improvement plan. It also calls for a systemwide plan with measurable targets, Board review, and twice-yearly reporting on progress.

Why it matters to families

The approach would make racial-equity work part of every school’s planning and add regular Board oversight, including review of attendance and discipline data disaggregated by race. The presentation describes an update, not a Board adoption, so the record does not establish that these requirements were approved.

The evidence

The presentation says the Superintendent will prepare a systemwide Racial Educational Equity Plan with evidence-based strategies and measurable goals for Board approval; every school will develop an Opportunity and Access goal and objectives; chronic absence and discipline patterns will be examined by race; and the Superintendent will report to the Board at least twice a year. Source is a presentation titled “Racial Equity Policy Update Nov 2026,” dated for the Nov. 10, 2026 meeting; it does not record a vote.

The source