A parental rights group filed two complaints on Monday, alleging civil rights violations for “racial discrimination” at an Oakland, California, high school district and a Boston, Massachusetts, K-12 school district.
One alleged violation involves white employees being apparently excluded from consideration for a paid role at Acalanes Union High School District in Oakland. Another involves the creation of employee affinity groups segregated by race at Boston Public Schools.
Parents Defending Education requested the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigate the alleged Title VII violations and “act swiftly to remedy unlawful policies and practices, and order appropriate relief.”
“If a district’s racially-segregated teacher support programs would earn a stamp of approval from the KKK, something has gone terribly wrong,” PDE President Nicole Neily said in a statement shared with the Washington Examiner. “And the fact that no administrators in the district seem to have opposed this programming raises additional red flags.”
“It’s not rocket science,” she added. “Including or excluding public school staff from opportunities on the basis of skin color is wrong.”