NONDISCRIMINATION

 

Public schools have the responsibility to overcome, insofar as possible, any barriers that prevent children from achieving their potential. This commitment to the community is affirmed in the following statements of school committee’s intent to:

 

1.        Promote the rights and responsibilities of all individuals as set forth in the State and Federal Constitutions, pertinent legislation, and applicable judicial interpretations and regulations.

 

2.        Encourage positive experiences in human values for children, youth and adults, all of whom have differing personal and family characteristics and who come from various socioeconomic, racial and ethnic groups.

 

3.        Work toward a more integrated society and to enlist the support of individuals as well as groups and agencies, both private and governmental, in such an effort.

 

4.        Use all appropriate communication and actions to air and reduce the grievances of individuals and groups.

 

The committee’s policy of nondiscrimination will extend to students, staff, the general public, and individuals with whom it does business; no person shall be excluded from or discriminated against in admission to any Gardner public school or in obtaining the advantages, privileges, and courses of study of such public school on account of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability. If you have a complaint or feel that you have been discriminated against because of your of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability register your complaint with the Title IX compliance officer.

 

[Adopted: 3/8/99]

 

[Revised: November 2001]

 

[Reviewed: March 2011]

 

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

Equal Pay Act, as amended by the Education Amendments of 1972

Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972

Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Education For All Handicapped Children Act of 1975

M.G.L. 71B:1 et seq. (Chapter 766 of the Acts of 1972

M.G.L. 76:5; Amended 1993

M.G.L. 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 603 CMR 2600

Board of Education, Chapter 766 Regulations, adopted 10/74, as amended through 3/28/78

 

CROSS REF.:

GBA, Equal Opportunity Employment

JB, Equal Education Opportunities