ADDRESS POLICING IN THE SEACOAST

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• Look to decrease police funding and relocate more funds to education and social programs 

  • Review local town budgets in the coming weeks and request that they are reassessed 

• Resource Officers in schools

  • Are they necessary?

    • Would it be more beneficial to higher more counselors, social workers, or create the position of an Equity and Justice Coordinator?

  • Bottom line: They should not be armed.

• Look to foster an attitude shift in what community care and safety mean, both in a broader context and to the Seacoast-specific area.  

  • Poll community members in an attempt to discern how people would like to define these terms in the Seacoast

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EDUCATION INITIATIVES IN THE SEACOAST

(in schools and communities):

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• Educating the Educators and Curricular Reform 

  • Increasing workshops on social justice issues (so that teachers have an inclusive and clear understanding for themselves) 

  • Increasing workshops on how educators can teach social justice issues in the classroom.  This would include providing curriculum requirements/learning targets to the local school departments and State Departments of Ed. 

  • Teaching educators how to teach Black literature (oftentimes, white educators misconstrue/misunderstand these texts).

  • Bring conversations of racial justice into all core subjects in schools (not just history/literature) for K-12.  Formulating an interdisciplinary curriculum would make these conversations more commonplace in all fields of study. 

  • Developing inclusive, accurate, thorough curriculum (disrupting a solely white narrative)

• Creating a more inclusive and respectful environment to welcome non-cis, non-white staff members.  Look to hire an Equity and Justice Coordinator to guide district-wide relearning and support students and faculty of color.  

• Developing community-based workshops and modes of conversation to invite productive discussions about racial justice and promote learning for all ages.