Philadelphia Gets Ex-School Worker’s Race Bias Case Pared Back

The School District of Philadelphia is free of some civil rights claims lodged by a Black former program manager, but her other allegations, made under a different racial discrimination law survive, a federal judge said.

The worker didn’t plead a policy or custom of bias in employment or show that the district’s conduct was severe, pervasive, and outrageous enough to support hostile work environment and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said, partially dismissing the case.

But plaintiff Priscilla Johnson’s complaint raises an inference of discrimination based on her ...