Indiana Principal’s Sex Bias Claims Not Triable

A school principal can’t show sex bias caused an Indiana school board’s decision to reassign her to an assistant principal position at a different school when hers closed, a federal appeals court ruled.

Gloria Terry didn’t refute Gary Community School Corporation’s explanation that it closed Brunswick Elementary and four other schools after the 2013 – 2014 school year because of declining enrollment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said Dec. 14.

Terry also claimed that discrimination was why she wasn’t selected for a principal position at another school that came open shortly after her reassignment, even though ...