The district's three-year equity plan reports no inequities anywhere, contains no data, and leaves every corrective-action table blank

What happened

New Jersey requires each district to file a comprehensive equity plan identifying barriers to equal educational opportunity and setting corrective actions. West New York's plan for 2025 to 2028 answers yes to every compliance question across a dozen tables, names no non-compliant school, and consequently leaves all six corrective-action tables empty. It contains no figures at all: no enrolment or demographic breakdown, no achievement data, no suspension, classification or referral counts, even where the template asks for data disaggregated by gender, race, ethnicity, English proficiency, special education status and suspension. The evidence it cites for compliance is a list of board policies, most dated between 2008 and 2021, with several from March 2018. The plan is posted as an image-only scan, so its text was read by character recognition.

Why it matters to families

This is the one document in which a district has to look for unequal outcomes and say what it will do about them. Filed with no numbers and no findings, it tells a parent nothing about their own child's school, in a district whose high school is 443 pupils over capacity and whose enrolment fell by 430 in a year.

The evidence

Where the template asks the district to 'describe the corrective actions to be implemented for School Years 2025-2026 through 2027-2028', the tables that follow contain only headers and column labels, and the substantiation offered for the data requirement is 'Principal's Monthly Report / Power School / Student Safety Data System Report Twice A Year At Boe Meeting'.

The source