Student Life
Learning During Covid-19
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Creating safe and healthy environments in schools
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Using funding to provide resources to recover losses in learning from Covid-19
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Making virtual options for learning accessible for all students
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Expanding access to vaccines and tests for all MCPS students
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Prioritizing student physical and mental health
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Supporting the MCPS Virtual Academy and providing online courses for students enrolled in their home high schools
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Continuing to safely host school activities, virtual and in-person
School Safety
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Prioritizing student mental health with outreach and resources
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Ensuring school administrations take student security concerns seriously and respond to them immediately
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Implementing transparent communication between the school and the community as security concerns unfold
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Challenging the school-to-prison pipeline and creating a safe and welcoming environment for all students
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Ensuring the the police (Community Engagement Officers) are completely removed from schools to prevent the continuation of disproportionate arrests of Black and Latinx students and students with disabilities
School Lunches
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Providing free lunches and breakfasts to all students
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Accommodating for all diets with more vegan and gluten-free options
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Creating an open-campus policy during lunches at all high schools
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Ensuring lunches are 45 minutes long at every school
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Allowing students to use phones and other devices during lunch
Transparent Grading Policies
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Creating fair and transparent grading policies
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Communicating grading policies to students, families, and teachers
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Allowing students to easily dispute unfair and inaccurate grades
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Requiging grades to be entered quickly so students may see their grade before the end of each interim, quarter, and semester
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Ensuring that teachers assign a grade no lower than 50 percent to a task or assessment
Staffing and Hiring
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Hiring teachers and staff to reflect and meet the needs of MCPS students
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Hiring a diverse team of teachers and staff to reflect the diversity of MCPS students
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Continuing and promoting Teacher Signing Day (signing MCPS Students to jobs within MCPS after college)
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Using funding from the old 3 million dollar School Resource Officer budget to hire more school psychologists in every school