Empowering our children and community for a more equitable future
Thank you, Monroe County!
On November 3, the citizens of Monroe County elected April Hennessey as the MCCSC School Board Trustee from District 2 with nearly 60% of the vote. Thank you for trusting April to do this important work with our most precious resource—our schools and our students.
A voice for students, families, and educators
I am a former MCCSC teacher and a parent of children currently in the school system. I know firsthand the challenges we face as a district and community. The Monroe County Community School Corporation serves a diverse population of students—young people from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences who overcome incredible obstacles just to show up each day; who challenge themselves to achieve at the highest level; and who are often forgotten when we count our successes.
I am running for each of them.
Our community’s incredible diversity is rarely reflected in our hiring practices and policies. Further, we still suffer from educational redlining and afford too much power to standardized testing and the building “grades” that shape our district.
We can do more for our students and families. Let’s become what we believe in.
Becoming what we believe in
Equity within and beyond the classroom
Let’s move beyond training and awareness toward structural solutions. Doing so requires the unflinching courage to examine our biases and restructure our policies, systems, and classrooms.
Whole-child, whole-community approach
Each student deserves to be “healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged” (acsd.org), but guaranteeing comprehensive and sustainable support requires community collaboration with social agencies and organizations that are connected to our students and families beyond the school building.
Accountability for measurable change
It’s important to form clubs, committees, and programs directed toward equity and progress, but we must ensure that these actions have the intended impact. We must see measurable change both in the lived experiences of our families and students and in the data.
“Each family should feel that the School Board has cast a safety net wide and far to ensure that their child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.”
— April Hennessey, Candidate for MCCSC School Board Trustee District 2
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