Diversity Management, News and Updates
In an alarming new trend, a growing number of U.S. states have enacted laws designed to discriminate against or to remove rights from the nation’s transgender youth. In Iowa, the Times-Republican has reported that legislators are mulling over passage of “Senate File 224, a bill that would prevent Iowa students…
Richfield Public Schools in Minnesota has received more than $22,800 in donations as of Tuesday after a video surfaced of workers throwing away kids’ hot lunches if the students owed more than $15, according to CNN. CNN reported that hundreds of people have donated in order to raise the thousands…
School officials in Montgomery County, Maryland are asking the College Board to not schedule Advanced Placement Exams on Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim holiday, next year. The College Board is a nonprofit that owns the Advanced Placement testing as well as he SAT college entrance exam. The Washington Post reported that…
Marlon Anderson, a longtime Black security guard in the Madison Metropolitan School District, will be reinstated after being fired for telling a student not to call him the N-word, the district announced Monday in a press release. “I’m thankful. I’m blessed, and I’m so happy to be going back and…
In one instance, a student was told to go back to their country by a teacher. In another, a student said a teacher referred to all Arabs as terrorists. These are just two reports of rampant, ingrained racism that students of color in Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia have…
Update: The investigation found that Amari Allen lied about her dreads being cut after she admitted that she made the story up. There was a verbal altercation between her and the boys, but no physical attack against her. An investigation is currently underway after a 12-year-old Black girl, Amari Allen,…
In Cobb County, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, parents and teachers are demanding the majority white school board take racism in the district seriously. The school board has said that it takes it “seriously” but a grassroots movement there wants more. In March 2017, a white student at North Cobb…
A white teacher at Van Asselt Elementary School in Seattle called the police on a Black student in her 5th-grade class. The instructor is a 27-year old white woman, and the boy is 11-years old. The incident happened this past May. Related Story: Disgraced Racist Teacher from the Bronx is Suing…
Rebecca Antinozzi, a teacher at The Chapel School, a private Christian school in Bronxville, N.Y., who held mock slave auctions in her fifth-grade classroom, has been fired after being placed on administrative leave. When the mock slave auctions were reported by a parent of one of the Black students in…
A fifth grade teacher in South Carolina has been placed on administrative leave after asking her students to provide a justification for the actions of the Ku Klux Klan. Tremain Cooper, an uncle of one of the students who received the assignment, identified the teacher on Facebook as Kerri Roberts,…
