Common use of Partnership Committee Clause in Contracts

Partnership Committee. The SPS and the SEA will create a Partnership Committee consisting of 5 appointees of SPS, (one of which is appointed by the Department of Racial Equity Advancement), 5 appointees of the SEA, (one of which is appointed by the Seattle Education Association Center for Racial Equity), and 3 non- voting community members selected by the parties using agreed upon selection criteria, after the initial convening of the Committee. Each member must commit to serve for a 12-month period. The parties will make their best efforts to assure that the Committee reflects racial and ethnic diversity. The purpose of the committee is to ensure racial equity in our educational system, unapologetically address the needs of students of color who are furthest from educational justice, and to undo the legacies of racism in our educational system, consistent with Board Policy No. 0030 – Ensuring Educational and Racial Equity. The Partnership Committee will: a. Convene monthly. b. Identify and make recommendations to the Leadership Committee on best practices and initiatives that focus on reducing disproportionality in student learning. c. Identify and work with internal committees, task forces, groups, individual staff members, etc. that are working to increase racial equity and reduce disproportionality in an effort to align and coordinate initiatives. d. Identify human and financial resources that could support school-level and District-level initiatives. e. In May of each year, the committee will give a written report to the Leadership Committee that will discuss the District’s progress in ensuring racial equity and eliminating disproportionate discipline and include recommended strategies for use at the District, program and school level. The District will provide to the Committee disaggregated student data on discipline and graduation rates by race/ethnicity, age, gender, and ELL or special education status. f. Disproportionate discipline and the achievement and opportunity gaps are present in every school and need to be addressed everywhere as soon as possible. g. Review the work of Building Racial Equity Teams and make recommendations regarding how to share their learnings and best practices. h. Partnership committee will, as determined by recommendation from SEA CRE and DREA, to approve the yearly payment of the RET stipend to buildings/programs based on requirements of racial equity teams being met (requirements of the racial equity teams are jointly agreed upon by the Partnership Committee, including DREA and SEA CRE). i. The District will set aside at least one-half day of a District Contractual day for training related to racial equity each year, to be planned by the Partnership Committee. All SAEOPs and Paraprofessionals will be invited and allowed to participate and paid for their time. j. Ensure that ongoing training on implicit bias and Board Policy No. 0030 – Ensuring Educational and Racial Equity, is provided to all staff. k. Review SPS progress on recruiting and retaining educators of color and make recommendations as appropriate. l. Review the SPS Racial Equity Analysis Tool and adapt as needed for use by BLTs/PLTs.