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Vision Statement/Consent Decree

VISION STATEMENT

"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School is dedicated

to the principles of peace, brotherhood, and equality. Our goal is to ensure that all

students achieve their maximum potential in academic, social, and physical endeavors.

We will accomplish this through the combined efforts of our

students, families, and staff."

Consent Decree

"The SFUSD has operated under a federal and judicial consent decree since 1983, in response to a lawsuit brought by the NAACP to address years of racial discrimination against African American school children in San Francisco. The decree is a voluntary, carefully negotiated and judicially supervised compromise. The two primary and related goals of the consent decree are to desegregate the city's schools and to improve academic performance.

Under the consent decree, no racial group may constitute more than 40% or 45% of total student enrollment at any given school. Additionally the decree requires each school to have students from at least four out of nine different ethnic groups represented in its student body. Under the terms of the SFUSD consent decree, every student is guaranteed free, desegregated public education; no child and no particular group of children may be denied these benefits."

(Taken From the Affirmative Action, 1996 ACLU-NC Annual Report)

The Consent Decree Tenets:

All individuals should learn to live and work in a world that is characterized by interdependence and cultural diversity.
All individuals want to learn and to be recognized for their achievements.
Learning is an interactive process that occurs when students understand and are able to communicate new concepts through carefully crafted and guided challenging experiences defined by clear learning goals and rigorous performance standards.
All individuals are entitled to be treated with respect and dignity.
All individuals can learn.
All individuals learn in many different ways and at varying rates.
Each individual learns best in a particular way.
All individuals are both potential learners and potential teachers.
Learning has both cognitive and affective dimensions.
Teachers, administrators and staff are partners with students in the learning process. If students fail, all partners should accept full responsibility for this failure and take action to ensure success.
Parents want their children to attain their fullest potential as learners and to succeed academically.

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