Overview

• The Office for Civil Rights formally launched its investigation on August 7 after the Anti-Defamation League filed a Title VI complaint accusing Baltimore City Public Schools of “egregious and persistent discrimination.”
• The ADL’s filing details instances including a teacher directing Nazi salutes at a Jewish student and non-Jewish students chanting “all Jews should die” and defacing desks and textbooks with swastikas.
• BCPS’s own review confirmed the teacher’s misconduct, but the district has not disciplined the staff member and parents say their concerns and proposed remedies were ignored.
• Baltimore City Public Schools has reiterated its commitment to tolerance and civility, urged reporting of harassment and said it is cooperating with the federal inquiry within privacy constraints.
• This case joins a wave of ADL-initiated OCR probes under the Trump-McMahon Education Department, testing enforcement of Title VI protections in K-12 schools nationwide.