The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened two discrimination complaints filed against Denver Public Schools’ use of race in selecting committee members to evaluate the district’s “discipline matrix” and in deciding which students can take math extension courses.
The complaints, filed by Mountain States Legal Foundation in November and September, respectively, alleged that the district gives preferential treatment to persons of color and inferred that its use of the word “diverse” is a veiled reference to considering race and people’s gender identity.
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