Achieving Equity:

Where have we been, where are we now, and where can we go?

The History Center in Tompkins County, The Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE) at Ithaca College, the Staff Development Office of Ithaca City School District (ICSD), and the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a three-part series that examines educational equity in the Ithaca schools. Titled “Achieving Equity,” the series aims to facilitate dialogue and engage in a process to assist and support the effort to eliminate disproportionality between Black/Brown students, students without economic privilege, students with disabilities, and their peers. It operates from the open assumption that assisting the ICSD Board of Education in “eliminating race, class and disability as predictors of academic success” is a worthy and necessary goal.

Speakers, dates, and times for the series:

ICSD Reports and Plans:

Program sponsors urge community members to inform themselves so that they might be in a position to effect and enact change. To this end, we have provided web links to relevant reports and plans authored by the ICSD, the Tompkins County Legislature, and community groups:

Additional Web Links: