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Jimmy Johnson's avatar

Are they aware of the lawsuit he’s currently apart of from the department of education office of civil rights violations ? Amazing that anyone would hire him. Personally I wonder if somethings about to happen in that case that he knows about

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Tracy's avatar

No. Are there any links about it?

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Tom Hayden's avatar

This is quite a complicated story; I'm going to write on this soon but I'm waiting for a response to some FOIAs from the Dept of Ed. Here's the document that Jimmy mentioned:

https://files.foiagras.com/Letter-of-Finding.pdf

Essentially, in Jan 2021, the Dept of Ed Civil Rights division sent a letter of finding to D65 regarding some pretty serious violations of the law. It was written by a career employee at DoE, not some partisan hack. However, the letter was never finished and was officially cancelled by the DoE and the Biden Administration without really any rationale.

Edit: I should add- many of these violations actually did not happen during Dr. Horton's tenure. Most of the offenses happened in 2018-19, before he came to Evanston. However, he's basically taken ownership and used the very offenses for political gain ("Look at how I am being victimized" kind of stuff)

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