DEMAND CHANGE
Henrico County Public Schools currently has a blatant division between East End and West End schools, which is exemplified through racial and socioeconomic differentiation. This severance is due to a long history of white flight and segregation in our County. Currently, HCPS schools are inequitable, generate harm unto Black students, and ultimately lack inclusivity and diversity. Certain power is not being placed in the hands of students to improve and create a better school system for themselves and future students. We ask that you please sign our petition (located at the bottom of the page) in support of our demands, which provide a starting point for an equitable HCPS.
DEMANDS TOWARDS HCPS
-Scrap the current district plan and redistrict HCPS (specifically Hermitage, Glen Allen, Tucker, Freeman) and subsequently the elementary and middle schools that feed into these schools. Also implement a citizen review board to oversee these changes in order to create rather than diminish diversity.
-Reform the Equity Ambassadors program by holding regular meetings between all members of Equity Ambassadors in the county. Students should become Equity Ambassadors through an application as opposed to teacher recommendations.
-Create a quota of spots in specialty centers for students of different districts in order to promote a balance of West End and East End students in centers.
-Institute a uniform countywide definition of racial discrimination and a uniform procedure that defines consequences in cases of racial discrimination (a small suspension will not suffice).
-Pressuring the school board to continue to call for the state of Virginia to change curriculum to include comprehensive Black and POC history. Black and POC history should not be told through the white lens.Â
-Creating a PTSO pool and a cap on booster funds. Additional booster funds would be distributed equitably to the PTSO pool.