February 09, 2024
A northern New York teacher will pay $75,000 for holding a mock slave auction of Black students in her classroom, settling a federal suit over a lesson a 10-year-old student's mother said emotionally damaged her son.
October 03, 2022
A school district's insurer doesn't have to defend a teacher being sued for conducting a mock slave auction in her classroom, a New York federal judge ruled, finding that a commercial general liability policy didn't offer coverage for allegations of intentional racial discrimination.