The Tarrytown District Equity Committee (DET) began meeting during the 2019/2020 school year with the explicit purpose of promoting community that shares a language and commitment to equity and racial justice; affording representative stakeholders a voice in school/district climate; serving as an accountability mechanism for monitoring and addressing disparities in attendance, achievement, discipline, access, opportunity, and lived experience in the district; and auditing current curriculum, resources, policies, and practices for bias.  

The DET engaged in critical self and collective reflection, capacity-building, shared narrative and experience, and reviewed best practices and research on promoting equity and racial justice from districts around the country. Leveraging the brilliance of the community, the team settled on 5 top areas to design recommendations for the district. Over a number of months, the team fleshed out the ideas to be presented to you this evening. The DET will be forming sub-committees in each of these 5 areas to ensure there is a structure and support to operationalize the goals below. 

The work of this committee is shared with all district employees.