Texas School District’s ‘Racial Equity Committee’ Blocks Parents from Attending Its Meetings Amid Public Backlash
March 7, 2022 | Texas
A school district’s “Racial Equity Committee” has prevented members of the public from attending its previously public meetings for the first time since the governing body was created in 2016, according to reports.
A disabled Fort Worth, Texas, resident who tried to attend a Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) “Racial Equity Committee” (REC) meeting on Thursday was told he had to pull his vehicle “off of the district property” after trying to park in the parking lot of the school hosting the meeting.
The REC said its meetings wouldn’t be open to the public, and it said it wasn’t required to post anything about meeting times or locations because a quorum of school board trustees wouldn’t be at the meeting, so the committee isn’t bound by board policy or the Texas Open Meetings Act, CBS DFW reported…. (Excerpt from the Virginia Star)
