Schools must welcome and include every student and family, whatever their race, culture, language, ability, religion, family structure, or identity

Schools must welcome and include all students and families regardless of race, culture, language, ability, religion, family structure, or identity. Staff should reflect the school communities.

About this proposal: This statement was drafted by the MSEG team to capture the common thread across 9 comments shared on the What's Important board at the June 1, 2026 community engagement session. The original comments appear below, unedited, so you can see exactly what was said. Read all 159 comments from the session.

What we heard

• Schools must be welcoming to all students and families
• Schools must be inclusive to all
• Cares for all students & families; values families, religions; treat all students the same
• It is important for a school to be inclusive & supportive of all students + families
• Focuses on inclusion and not compliance
• MUST have cultural understanding
• Teachers, staff, and admin fully trained in teaching, supporting, understanding ALL children of different abilities, races, cultures, languages, family structures, identities
• Schools need to respond to / look like their community / district
• Schools need intentional community building and inclusion of all families