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<p>Whereas the Cambridge Public Schools are dedicated to culturally responsive education, to dismantling structures of white privilege, and to becoming an actively anti-racist district; and </p> <p>Whereas Cambridge Public School Equal Employment Opportunity policy commits the district to making, "all reasonable efforts to ensure an environment free of discrimination or harassment on account of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or pregnancy-related condition and encourage all members of our community to support and foster the acceptance and inclusion of all individuals;" and </p> <p>Whereas elected School Committee Members share the district's values and believe that our silence when there is harm in our school community can be experienced as complicity; now therefore be it</p> <p>Resolved that the Governance Subcommittee bring to the Committee of the Whole for consideration a policy on how the Committee will address harm by Members to one or more of the groups listed in our Equal Employment Opportunity policy by November 15, 2020.</p>