j p o wrote:
This is an interesting situation. The school admits to past discrimination. "To remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination, Minneapolis Public Schools and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) mutually agreed to contract language that aims to support the recruitment and retention of teachers from underrepresented groups as compared to the labor market and to the community served by the school district," a spokesperson for Minneapolis Public Schools told TND in a statement.
I'm not so sure that is saying the school district admits to discriminatory hiring practices or that they are just referring to past discrimination in society general? They very well may have been but it's been illegal to discriminate based on race in hiring since 1964, so getting close to 60 years ago.