10/25/2021
The Black Educator Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (BECORE) is a group of dedicated teachers, retirees, paraprofessionals, school related personnel, parents, community members and other champions of public education. We fight for equitable public education and hope to improve the Washington Teacher's Union (WTU) so that it fights both on behalf of its members and on behalf of the District of Columbia students. We will take action to dismantle structural and social drivers of racial and ethnic disparities in all of its forms. These recommendations will be intentionally woven into who we are as a system and a part of what we do every day to better serve our workforce, and enhance the well-being of black educators, students, families and communities. We will take swift and progressive action to confront racism and eradicate inequities in education as it relates to the black educator. We are committed to comprehensively evaluating our processes, policies, and practices to move toward meaningful change within our organization and in the communities we serve. Driven by accountability and transparency, our plan will light BECORE’S path to the next level of excellence in our diversity, equity, inclusion and justice journey carried out by multiple, simultaneous and ongoing actions to eliminate them.
