Maryland: Eastern Shore superintendent files racial discrimination complaint against school board...

Eastern Shore superintendent files racial discrimination complaint against school board, escalating long-standing tensions

The schools superintendent in Queen Anne’s County has filed a federal complaint against her school board, accusing the five-member body of racial discrimination and opening the door for a federal lawsuit. Dr. Andrea M. Kane, in her fourth year as superintendent in the Eastern Shore county, filed the “charge of discrimination” with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission late last month. The complaint lays out more than two dozen instances that Kane, the county’s first Black superintendent, says represent a pattern of “discriminatory, hostile, and retaliatory treatment” by the all-white board. They include allegations that two board members defaced a photograph ...

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