The Chicago Teachers Union is supporting
three recently fired black teachers who are suing the city for racial
discrimination.
Donald Garrett Jr., Robert Green and
Vivionell Brown Jr. lost their jobs because of the Chicago Board of Education’s
turnaround program, which replaces most of the administrative and teaching
staff at low-performing schools.
These turnarounds tend to hit schools
with above-average numbers of black faculty members, and they have contributed
to a 10-percent reduction in black teachers in the past decade.
Along with the three teachers, the union
filed suit against Chicago Public Schools on Wednesday. Even facially
non-discriminatory employment policies can violate civil rights laws if they
disproportionately affect specific races in practice.
Robin Potter, an attorney for CTU, said
in a statement that the city’s
Source: Daily Caller
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