Do Livingston Kids Get A Fair Shot At School Success? Board Will Discuss Study

LIVINGSTON, NJ —The results of Livingston Public Schools' "equity audit" will be presented at the Board of Education's public meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 5.

According to Education Week, "Equity audits are systemic examinations of data across schools and a district to [identify] where gaps to access and challenges to educational equity exist."

The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will be held in the Heritage Middle School cafeteria on Foxcroft Drive.

You can also attend the meeting on Zoom. Webinar registration information is posted at www.livingston.org under "District Announcements" on the day of the meeting. Meetings are also livestreamed via the district’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/LivSchools.

"Earlier this year, the district worked to identify a high-quality, expert equity auditing firm to conduct a third-party equity audit," said a district spokesperson. "The Board of Education approved the Rowan University Partnership for Educational Equity and Research (PEER) Lab, Equity Coaching, Inc., to complete this task. The audit work began in May and continued for the next six months."

The audit was conducted as part of the recently established LPS Equity Goal, which seeks to improve the culture and community with LPS by “enhancing inclusiveness, cultural awareness, anti-racism and acceptance of individual differences through mandated curricular programming, extracurricular programming, and district operations.”

Find out more about the district's equity initiative here.

Livingston's schools were ranked in the top districts in the state this year. Read more about that here.