Sent Wednesday, October 11, 2017 2:50 PM
Dear Steve, I replied to you in great detail on 9/25 and eagerly await your response. The email thread is at the very bottom of this message for your convenience. It can also be found here. As you know, in Princeton Public Schools, Community Park has one of the higher percentages of Black and Latinx families, and of children receiving free and reduced lunch. It also has a STEM opportunity gap that, for two-plus years, has been widening for girls, children of color, girls of color, and economically disadvantaged children. Given these demographics, and your PR efforts about equity and racial literacy, shouldn't CP be a higher priority for PPS? Or do CP families and children not have as much value as those at other schools? I'm genuinely curious, because more evidence of STEM ed inequity at CP has come to light: 1.) School began 9/7 - on Back to School Night (9/28) I learned that some teachers still hadn't been trained on the new "Amplify Science" curriculum. Oddly, Eddie touted Amplify Science in a letter to parents. Why hype this if all of the teachers haven't actually been trained, especially at CP, which has an urgent need? This is concerning and demands immediate attention, as CP was burned in 2015-16 with Engineering is Elementary (EiE) which was similarly hyped, then disappeared a few months later (after being introduced mid-year, and with minimal training.) If you will recall, you backed Eddie's implementation of EiE.
2.) Your rationale of CP children missing a week of science lab when school began, due to teacher training, has a discrepancy. The new science teacher began working for PPS in July, not on the first day school. Please see below correspondence with Lew.
Justice and equity in the schools is an emerging value in the community, and on Sunday night, Not in Our Town had a forum for Board of Education candidates. Now that your contract has been renewed, will you be using your position and privilege to bring justice and STEM ed equity to CP? Regards, Jennifer
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