1) Call to order
2) Approval of minutes dated Nov. 5, 2020
3) Review Charge Statement/Purpose & Timeline
4) Update of responses to questions & comments
5) What we heard from last meeting?
a) Successful Implementation of RJ Practices & MMSD- Critical Response Teams
6) Partnering with Law Enforcement- Flow and Guidance
7) Continue Discussion: RJ District-wide Implementation Best Practices-
Budget/Policy
8) Making Connections to Restorative Justice and Policy # 4147
a) Discuss Budget & Policy Recommendations: What do we need to continue the work?
What needs to be revised? Strengthened?
9) Confirm Next Meeting Dates/Times/Proposed Agenda Items
10) Adjournment
Freedom, Inc. Policy Proposal:
BACKGROUND
On July 21, 2020, Madison City Council took a historic near unanimous vote to terminate the contract between the Madison Police Department and the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), which provided School Resource Officers for the city’s four high schools—the final step in formally removing police officers from Madison schools after the MMSD School Board voted to end the contract. This hard fought victory was the culmination of years long organizing by Black and Southeast Asian youth organizers of Freedom Inc’s “Freedom Youth Squad” who launched their “No Cops In Schools” campaign over four years ago. Removing the physical presence of police from schools is a crucial first step in prioritizing the health, safety, and well-being of Black youth and youth of color and protecting them from a system of policing that views them as threats and not as students. However, creating safe, nurturing, and liberatory learning environments for young people attending Madison schools demands much more than the physical removal of law enforcement from school campuses. It requires community control over school safety and discipline within MMSD, and a robust and transparent community-led accountability process for teachers, school administrators, and other school staff who continue to perpetuate the violent and harmful policing and criminalization of Black, Brown, LGTBQ, and differently abled students.
Template for Gathering Safety & Security Ad Hoc Committee Recommendations – Nov 19, 2020.
Committee Members:
Savion Castro (Madison School Board seat 2, appointed to fill Mary Burke’s incomplete term. Seat 2 is on the April, 2021 ballot). Run!
Gloria Reyes (Madison School Board seat 1, elected. This seat is on the April, 2021 ballot. Run!)
Kiesha Duncan (Madison student)
Vera Naputi (West High School Parent)
Stephanie Prewitt (LaFollette High School Parent)
Everett Mitchell (Dane County Circuit Judge)
Noble Wray (former Madison Police Chief)
Lorrie Hurckes-Dwyer (Dane County Time Bank)
Wayne Strong (Former Madison Police Officer and a candidate for the School Board)
Anthony Ward (School Security Staff)
Patrice Hutchins (East High Staff Member)
Corvonn Gaines (West High Staff Member)
Silvia Gomez (East High Staff Member)
Ed Sadlowski (Madison Teachers Union Executive Director)
Nadia Pearson (West High Student)
Bianca Gomez (Freedom, Inc.)
Martha Siravo (Madtown Mommas)
Marques Flowers (Memorial High Staff Member)
Ashzianna Alexander (LaFollette High Student)
Vanessa McDowell (YWCA)
Yanna Williams (Dear Diary)
(Member source document).
August 3 Capital Times post.
Brenda Konkel commentary.
2017: West High Reading Interventionist Teacher’s Remarks to the School Board on Madison’s Disastrous Reading Results
Madison’s taxpayer supported K-12 school district, despite spending far more than most, has long tolerated disastrous reading results.
My Question to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Teacher Mulligans and our Disastrous Reading Results
“An emphasis on adult employment”
Wisconsin Public Policy Forum Madison School District Report[PDF]
Booked, but can’t read (Madison): functional literacy, National citizenship and the new face of Dred Scott in the age of mass incarceration