School policy was to fire white teachers first.
QUICK FACTS:
- According to the lawsuit, a Minneapolis school district is being sued over its most recent agreement with a teachers union that prioritizes the firing of white teachers over minority teachers.
- A lawsuit was filed by Judicial Watch on Aug. 23 against the Minneapolis Public Schools and superintendent Rochelle Cox as well as the Minneapolis Board of Education.
- The lawsuit claims the contract fires teachers first on the basis of seniority rather than those who do not belong to an underrepresented population.
- If true, the policy is illegal and a violation of the Equal Protection Guarantee of the Minnesota Constitution.
DETAILS ON THE SUIT:
- Deborah Jane Clapp, a taxpayer whose taxed income supports Minneapolis Public Schools, brought the lawsuit on her behalf. The lawsuit requests that the court declare this policy illegal and prohibit its application in public schools.
- “The left has highlighted this contract as a national model which makes it all the more dangerous to the rule of law because it again, strikes at the heart of constitutional and legal provisions that have been decades in the making in preventing racial discrimination, hiring and employment decisions,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
- The suit states that under the contract, “teachers of color are exempt from defendant MPS’s seniority-based layoffs and reassignments, which means, when layoffs or reassignments occur, the next senior teacher who is not ‘of color’ would be laid off or reassigned. In addition, the contract mandates that defendants reinstate teachers of color over more senior teachers who are not ‘of color.’”
BACKGROUND:
- American Express is also being sued for “reverse discrimination” against white people, according to a former employee.
- The suit came about after an employee blew the whistle on policies regarding the company’s treatment of white employees in the wake of the George Floyd protests.
