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April 10, 2024 Vol. 44, No. 41
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Board member pushes OPRF to redefine equity goals Mary Anne Mohanraj says she prefers ‘intersectionality,’ an expansion of the goal By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
Eyes on the skies
TODD BA BANNOR
Funny glasses and craned necks were in vogue during the near-total eclipse Monday afternoon, which drew a large enthusiastic crowd to Scoville Park. See more photos on page 14 A NIGHT OF COMEDY FROM “SEINFELD” WRITER
PAT HAZELL
One member of the Oak Park and River Forest High School Board of Education is questioning whether promoting racial equity should be the number priority at OPRF. As the administration is updating the school’s strategic plan, board member Mary Anne Mohanraj said that she believes focusing primarily on race in an equity goal is too narrow. “I would like to see this changed … Priority 1 to either be equity, or even better I think, intersectional equity, to really remind everybody that we have to look at it from these different angles,” Mohanraj said at the March 21 school board meeting. “I don’t know why Priority 1 is racial equity. I wasn’t here when this was put in. It seems an odd thing to call out race above everything else that our students are dealing with, all the other, as See EQUITY on page 15
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