A Minnesota school district’s program for recruiting, mentoring, and retaining local teachers is race-based and therefore discriminatory, a parents group alleges in a complaint to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE).
The complaint, filed in the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) by the Virginia-based Parents Defending Education (PDE) on Dec. 18, notes the criteria for the district’s “Grow Your Own” initiative, which totals $136,400 in grants, states that applicants must be “of color.”
“PDE and its members oppose discrimination on the basis of race and political indoctrination in America’s schools,” the complaint says, citing the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause….