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LEVERETT SCHOOL COMMITTEE
EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
In recognition of the diversified characteristics and needs of our students and with the keen desire to be responsive to them, the School Committee will make every effort to protect the dignity of the students as individuals. It also will offer careful consideration and sympathetic understanding of their personal feelings, particularly with reference to their race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, homeless status, physical and intellectual differences, pregnancy or pregnancy related condition.
To accomplish this, the Committee and its staff will make every effort to comply with the letter and the spirit of the Massachusetts equal educational opportunities law which prohibits discrimination in public school admissions and programs.
This will mean that every student will be given equal opportunity in school admission, admissions to courses, course content, support services, and extracurricular and athletic activities.
All implementing provisions issued by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in compliance with this law will be followed.
SOURCE: MASC February 2019
LEGAL REFS.: Title VI, Civil Rights Act of 1964
Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
Executive Order 11246, as amended by E.O. 11375
Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972
M.G.L. 76:5; 76:16 (Chapter 622 of the Acts of 1971)
BESE regulations 603 CMR 26:00
BESE regulations 603 CMR 28.00
The McKinney-Vento Act and Title I Part A, as Amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015
CROSS REF.: AC, Nondiscrimination
NOTE: The cross reference is to a related statement in this manual.
Reviewed and Edited by Leverett Policy Committee: 06-01-20
First Reading by Leverett School Committee – 7-6-20
Second Reading, First Vote by Leverett School Committee: 07-27-20
Final Vote by Leverett School Committee: 08-03-20
Reviewed by Leverett Policy Committee: 11-1-21