"The Board of Regents and the New York State Education Department have come to understand that the results we seek for all our children can never be fully achieved unless we re-focus every facet of our work through an equity and inclusion lens (see also New York State’s Every Student Succeeds Act Plan). This understanding has created an urgency around promoting equitable opportunities that help all children thrive. New York State understands that the responsibility of education is not only to prevent the exclusion of historically silenced, erased, and disenfranchised groups, but also to assist in the promotion and perpetuation of cultures, languages and ways of knowing that have been devalued, suppressed, and imperiled by years of educational, social, political, economic neglect and other forms of oppression."
-The NYS Board of Regents Framework on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in New York’s Schools: A Call to Action, April 2021
Jill Kissick-Castro
Itinerant DEI Coordinator
607-257-1551
jkissick-castro@tstboces.org
Madeline Manheim
DEI Specialist
607-257-1551
mmanheim@tstboces.org