After a tumultuous year for Davis School District, Daniel Linford will take over as superintendent to guide the district as it tries to reduce racism and bullying in its schools.
with community organizations aimed at identifying strategies to reduce discrimination throughout the county., including threats to lynch Black students, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Justice released in October.
“We’re deep in the process of improving,” Linford said. “...The challenges we face with all forms of harassment, particularly with racism, are a community challenge that we all have to face.” Every time someone uses hurtful language in Davis schools, Linford said, it’s reported to district administration and sent to the newly established Office of Equal Opportunity to correct students. Reports of racist harassment land on Linford’s desk nearly every day, he said.The Department of Justice required that Davis School District create an Office of Equal Opportunity to handle complaints of racial discrimination after its findings.
Linford said he believes the district has a “world class response” to the Department of Justice’s findings with the Office of Equal Opportunity and assistant superintendent Jackie Thompson, who was hired in December and tasked with working on diversity and equity in the predominantly white district. “I’m hoping to see a considerable drop in the kinds of reports we receive on the daily — that we change and shift the culture,” he said. “... We will never stop operating like we have to conquer this. We do not believe that we can improve this if we ever take the mindset that we’ve accomplished something.”
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