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US investigating Dallas school district, Sacramento State under Title VI

The U.S. Department of Education is probing the California public school for alleged discrimination based on religion.

Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas. Credit: TimUrban89/Pixabay.

On Monday afternoon, the Dallas Independent School District posted on social media that it was the subject of a Dallas Morning News article, about how University of North Texas at Dallas students will be residents in elementary schools in the district. “Dallas ISD in the news,” the district wrote, using a newspaper icon.

It posted no such information after the U.S. Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it is investigating the district and California State University-Sacramento under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars schools that receive public funding from discriminating based on “shared ancestry,” including religion.

Neither the district—whose staff of 22,857 serves 139,584 students in 240 schools—nor the public university responded to queries from JNS.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights does not publicize alleged violations under Title VI, but it did state on its site that the probe of the Sacramento school, the California State University system’s six largest campus (of 23), relates to alleged “national origin discrimination involving religion.”

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