NYC Education Department to Face Bias Claim After DEI Training

A former executive director for New York City’s education department can continue pursuing litigation alleging the agency’s implicit race bias training gave rise to a racially hostile work environment.

Leslie Chislett—a White woman who led an education initiative to help underserved communities—sufficiently pleaded that her exposure to discriminatory comments during and after training sessions were severe and pervasive enough to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether she experienced a hostile work environment, Judge Pierre N. Leval said in a Thursday opinion for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Leval reversed and remanded a ...