Portland Public Schools Hit With Bias Suit Over Funding Policies

A Portland Public Schools parent is suing the district over its allegedly discriminatory equity-focused approach to distributing grants and funds raised by local communities.

The district’s policy allocating funding to schools with large historically underserved populations relies on “pernicious racial stereotypes” and violates federal antidiscrimination law, Richard Raseley asserted in a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the District of Oregon.

The suit comes amid a push from the Trump administration for K-12 schools and universities to abandon diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that the federal government considers discriminatory, including by attaching conditions to federal grants prohibiting ...