JB: 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, religion, national
origin, sexual orientation or physical and intellectual differences.
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 (known as Chapter 622
of the Acts of 1971), which prohibits discrimination in public school
admissions and programs. The law reads as follows:
No child shall
be excluded from or discriminated against in admission to a public
school of any town, or in obtaining the advantages, privileges and course of
study of such public school on account of race, color, sex, religion, national
origin or sexual orientation.
This will
mean that every student will be given equal opportunity in school admission,
admissions to courses, course content, guidance, and extracurricular and
athletic activities.
All implementing provisions issued
by the Board of Education in compliance with this law will be
followed.
SOURCE: MASC
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)
Board of
Education Chapter 622 Regulations Pertaining to Access to Equal Educational
Opportunity, adopted 6/24/75, amended 10/24/78
Board of
Education, Chapter 766 Regulations 10/74 - amended through 3/28/78
603 CMR
26:00
CROSS REF.: AC,
Nondiscrimination
NOTE: The
cross reference is to a related statement in this manual. The change in 1993 was
to add the classification of sexual orientation in the specific definitions
protected by law against discrimination.
Adopted on: April 10,
2008