NY Escapes Challenge to Indigenous School Mascot Prohibition

A Brooklyn federal judge tossed a lawsuit challenging New York State’s policy prohibiting public school districts from using Indigenous team names and mascots.

Four Long Island school districts have not “plausibly alleged a constitutional violation” or that the costs to comply with the regulation would cause irreparable harm to the school community, Chief Judge Margo Brodie of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York wrote in her Thursday opinion.

The schools’ claims also “do not outweigh the public interest in furthering a discrimination- and harassment-free learning environment in all of New York’s public schools,” Brodie ...