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Equity-Focused Policy Scan (Click to Download)
Overview of the Work
The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MEAC) has developed an equity audit tool which has been used to support the foundation of this report. This tool is used as a way of supporting the critical analysis of policies, programs, and practices that either directly or indirectly impact students and staff as related to their various identity markers (race, gender, sexuality, religion, language, age, etc.)
The MAEC equity audit tool was designed with the goal of helping educators to develop more concrete understandings of how to practice equity and to reflect on whether school policies, practices, and procedures are equitable to various groups. The school and district policy segment has been used exclusively for this report as its main area of analysis has been on the discovery of inequities in policy and practice at the school and district level.
This equity-focused policy scan has been completed utilizing interviews with relevant stakeholder groups, analysis of Atlanta BOE docs governing policies, and a policy analysis focus group. The participant pool of interviews included the following: CLL Staff, School Personnel, Student Advocacy Groups, and Parent and Community Organizations. All information arising from interviews was then connected to the MAEC framework and used to provide rankings across key areas arising from the focus groups.