The Reno Gazette-Journal features a front-page story today highlighting an education issue of monumental consequence, perhaps even the colossal education issue of our time: Diversity.
Back in 2005, a group of doo-doo-gooders got together and urged the Washoe County school district to do more about addressing diversity. School funding and educational performance? Fuggetaboutit. Small potatoes compared to the critical issue of diversity on campus. And school superintendent Paul Dugan agreed. “I’m not going to let this die,” he declared back then. “We are going to move, and it will be a top priority as long as I am superintendent.”
Among Dugan’s top priorities, as recommended by the group, are “cultural competence training for all district employees, renaming school police as school resource officers…and developing a district-wide evaluation process of diversity initiatives for district employees.”
Glad to see our school chief has his priorities straight.
Posted on February 18th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
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