Conservative foundation Judicial Watch is suing Minneapolis Public Schools on behalf of a community taxpayer over part of the district’s 2021-2023 agreement with its teacher union that is meant to protect minority teachers from seniority firing practices.
The contract gives the district the ability to exempt teachers of color from seniority-based staff reductions, if laying off or reassigning “the teacher would prevent students at the site from having access to educators of color and/or educators who reflect the diversity of enrolled students,” according to the district’s bargaining proposal in spring 2022.
