Santa Cruz City Schools

District Employment At-A-Glance
Certificated (Teachers): 462
All Employee: 817

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Uniform/Williams Complaint

 

From the California Department of Education: "A complaint is a written statement alleging discrimination, harassment, or a violation of a federal or state law or regulation. Acomplaint must be filed by way of the Uniform Complaint Procedures (UCP)as written in the California Code of Regulations, Title 5, sections4600-4687. Issues that may involve filing a complaint using the UCP areunder various state and federal programs that use categorical funds such as Adult Education, Career Technical Education, Child Development,Consolidated Categorical Programs, Indian Education, Migrant Education, Nutrition Education, and Special Education. " Click here for more information regarding policies and procedures.

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Title IX Regulations

 

Every school district that receives federal funding is required to designate and/or adequately train at least one employee to coordinate the recipient's Title IX responsibilities. Title IX regulations also require that the names and contact information of each Title IX Coordinator be made public by the educational institution.

Santa Cruz City Schools prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived ancestry, age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. This applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within a school under the jurisdiction of the superintendent of the school district. School personnel are required to take immediate steps to intervene when safe to do so when he or she witnesses an act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying.

(EC §§ 200, 220, 221.5, 234.1, 260; GC §11135; PC §422.55; 5 CCR §§ 4900, 4902, 4960)

Complaints alleging noncompliance with this policy of discrimination should be directed to the Title IX Coordinators:

Dorothy Coito
Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services
Telephone: (831) 429-3410 Ext. 48249
Email: dcoito@sccs.net

Molly Parks
Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources
Telephone: (831) 429-3410 Ext. 48235
Email: mparks@sccs.net
 

• Nondiscrimination In District Programs And Activities BP 0410

• Fundamental Training for Title IX Teams:Compliance Officers, Investigators, Decision-makers and Facilitators of Informal Resolution- September 22, 2020

• TITLE IX FUNDAMENTALS: GETTING YOUR TEAM INTO COMPLIANCE TRAINING MANUAL September 2020

Most recent Training:

• December 11th, 2023 by Sarah Fama from Lozano Smith (See presentation here)

More Information Regarding Rights and Responsibilities:

• Uniform Complaint Procedures

• Williams Settlement

• Office for Equal Opportunity

• US Dept. of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR)

 

How to File a Complaint with OCR:

• File with US Dept. of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

• OCR Complaint Form and Instructions

 

US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
San Francisco Office Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Education 50 United Nations Plaza Mail Box 1200, Room 1545 San Francisco, CA 94102
Telephone: (415) 486-5555
Fax: (415) 486-5570
TDD: (800) 877-8339
Email: ocr.sanfrancisco@ed.gov