Community organizer Tandy Moore says that if she's elected to the Kalamazoo Public Schools Board of Education, she'll work to fight "implicit bias."
"I think that we have institutional racism in KPS that isn't acknowledged, it isn't addressed the way that it should be and because of that we're seeing huge disparities in our graduation rates, in our suspensions and expulsions, just in our academic outcomes as well as in our juvenile arrest rates," she told WMUK.
In an interview about her candidacy, Moore discusses her position on the district's dress code, school buildng security, the need she sees for "restorative justice" and more transparency and for KPS to hold public forums where residents can share their views with trustees.