Last June, in the days after George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police, the equity committee with a far-away school district in Maine released a stunning letter.
Not only did committee members want the entire Cumberland and North Yarmouth community to know that they, too, were calling for justice for Floyd, but they also were ready to make radical changes in their majority white school district. “It is our duty,” they wrote, to dismantle the violent and oppressive structures that…
