Race and Equity

Emily Berry

Apr 10, 20193 min

Comments on the work ahead.

Below is a written version of comments I made at the board meeting tonight, April 9. Tonight will be one of the last times I speak to you...

Emily Berry

Jan 7, 20192 min

Writing racial equity into policy

Just a few months ago, our fall play was cancelled after objections to the racial slurs in the play. Suddenly systemic inequities that...

Emily Berry

Jan 3, 20194 min

I'm in.

Shorewood, welcome to campaign season 2019! This year I'll be on the ballot as a candidate for school board, and I'll be knocking on...

Emily Berry

Nov 14, 20183 min

"Please don't say 'this is a journey'"

Three of our five school board members are professors, so if there is one way to reach them, it is with an academic study of something....

Emily Berry

Oct 19, 20185 min

Unequal access to power

There's a phrase that people use now, sometimes jokingly: "all the feels," that describes Shorewood right now. All of us watching or...

Emily Berry

Oct 15, 20184 min

Waiting for leadership

The last few days of "To Kill a Mockingbird" controversy in Shorewood have swirled to the surface a lot of resentments, assumptions,...

Emily Berry

Oct 12, 20183 min

We failed. Let's get out of the way.

I'm lucky, I guess, to have a blank page here to draft my thoughts about the district cancelling its production of "To Kill a...

Emily Berry

May 7, 20189 min

Full email thread: our Superintendent on Student Transfers

Readers, our district superintendent Bryan Davis emailed me earlier today taking issue with the way I framed my recent post on transfers...

Emily Berry

May 3, 20185 min

Are students of color and their families giving up on Shorewood School District?

A few months ago, I started hearing talk of several African-American students leaving our high school and transferring to other nearby...

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