Special thanks to the District’s equity team, including our equity consultant, Ms. Natasha Hurt-Hayes, who assisted with developing and editing goals, strategies, and action steps to the District’s Equity Plan. You showed that you are dedicated and committed to the equity work that must go forward. Your efforts are so appreciated at this time in our country. Special thanks to district and building administrators, who have begun to engage staff and students in understanding the importance of diversity, inclusion, and equity and have begun to embed culturally responsive instructional practices in your teaching and learning. Lastly, special thanks to staff (teachers and support staff ) for the work you do every day to change students’ lives so that they will be ready for college, career, and life success.

We thank you immensely.

Princeton City Schools is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, caring, and challenging learning environment, which serves as the foundation for student growth. Through the lens of equity, we continue our mission statement of “empowering each student for college, career, and life success.” As we all know, great work needs to be done in our country to eliminate racism, bias, inequity, injustice, and inequality. Living our mission statement is critical, and we intend to be a beacon serving as a signal for other districts to model their work after. By empowering our students, we will help equip them with skills to reach achievement, and career levels previously unknown but ever so important and accept and value others regardless of their differences.