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Educational Equity Audit for the School District of Palm Beach County: Final Report

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INTRODUCTION

Over the past 18 months, the School District of Palm Beach County has worked with the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools to conduct an internal look at equity issues in the School District of Palm Beach County. This report of the Educational Equity Audit for the School District of Palm Beach County uses a combination of quantitative data provided by the School District to Metro Center, as well as survey results and focus group findings to highlight key equity issues within the District, provide insights into possible causes of those issues, and recommendations to address these issues.

SUMMARY OF STUDY

The analyses in this report are divided into four parts, which focus on issues experienced by school-based educators, student opportunities and outcomes, family involvement, and adult education.

  • Each of these sections uses a variety of data to detect and triangulate potential disparities, and to some extent, their causes.
  • There is, of course, an inherent interconnectedness amongst these four parts. For example, data related to teachers or family involvement can oftentimes speak to student outcomes.

As such, Metro Center took particular care in making recommendations that complemented each other in some way, with an added focus on improving student outcomes; some recommendations could have easily been stated in multiple sections.