The U.S. Department of Education is investigating a Chicago-area school district over “alleged discrimination” in its “equity policies, programs and curriculum.”
The DOE specifically is looking into potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act based on complaints from an Evanston/Skokie School District 65 drama teacher, the Evanston RoundTable reports.
Stacy Deemar first filed suit against the district in 2021, claiming district equity policies taught (among other things) that “to be less white is to be less racially oppressive,” and “white identity is inherently racist.”
Then-Superintendent Devon Horton had said teachers shouldn’t even be licensed unless they’ve gone through anti-racist training: “If you’re not antiracist, we can’t have you in front of our students.”