Prep School Fired Educators Over Critical Race Theory, Suit Says

Pennsylvania’s Sewickley Academy scrapped its diversity initiative because a group of parents wrongly labeled it “Critical Race Theory dressed in sheep’s clothing,” and then fired five Black educators, including a nationally recognized authority on teaching students of color, a federal lawsuit filed in Pittsburgh alleges.

The private prep school also soon fired the chair of the history and social sciences department of its senior school, two teachers from that department, and an English teacher, because they opposed the racial discrimination, according to the complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

The school’s diversity, ...