Dept. of Education Investigates Baltimore City Public Schools Over Alleged Harassment of Jewish Students

The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) said it is looking into whether the school district violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after receiving a complaint accusing BCPS of tolerating several incidents of antisemitic discrimination and harassment by teachers and non-Jewish students against Jewish students.

According to the department, the complaint specifically alleges that the district has allowed “egregious and persistent discrimination” against students in several schools. The complaint details several incidents, including BCPS continuing to employ a teacher who allegedly “threatened to ‘go all Nazi’ on [his] students…and personally directed Nazi salutes towards a Jewish student.”