The U.S. Department of Education is sanctioning a school district in Northern California after administrators there allegedly failed to take appropriate action in more than 15 racist and anti-Semitic incidents that were reported on the campuses between 2021 and 2024.
The federal agency’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on July 26 sent a letter to the Carmel Unified School District Superintendent Sharon Ofek summarizing its investigation of the incidents in question, which included nine instances where racist and anti-Semitic writings/drawings appeared in bathrooms, locker rooms, and on school supplies during the 2021-2022 academic year that the district failed to document. The district is now required to create a new system for identifying and reporting incidents, communicating with parents and students about this type of unacceptable behavior, and training all employees on the latest procedures, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Education….