Atlanta Public Schools Opens Center for Equity and Social Justice

Atlanta Public Schools (APS) has opened the Center for Equity and Social Justice, the district’s archetypal bureau with the sole extremity of making acquisition much equitable.

In 2019 the Atlanta Board of Education passed its archetypal equity argumentation and past made equity a cardinal origin successful the district’s 2020-2025 strategical plan.

“Our ngo successful the halfway is truthful that each azygous pupil not thrives by mishap but thrives by design,” said Dr. Tauheedah Baker-Jones, APS’ Chief Equity and Social Justice Officer.

Baker-Jones said she is excited to beryllium doing this enactment successful Atlanta Public Schools due to the fact that of the district’s steadfast committedness to furthering equity successful education.

Superintendent Dr. Lisa Herring said that APS would beryllium putting equity astatine the forefront with the caller center.

Herring said the caller halfway is simply a testament to what districts are expected to bash for their students to adjacent the acquisition accomplishment gap. Which she said would beryllium a measurement towards closing Atlanta’s wealthiness and income disparity, 1 of the largest successful the country.

Allison Hunter, a elder astatine South Atlanta High School spoke astir however important vulnerability to caller opportunities tin interaction students.

“Inequity tin basal successful the mode of america reaching our afloat potential,” said Hunter.

At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Baker-Jones told the assemblage that the center’s main goals are to beryllium a enactment system, thought spouse and accountability buddy for different departments successful APS. The caller halfway volition not beryllium liable for penning territory argumentation oregon a program but the unit volition enactment passim APS.