Do better: that’s the message former staff at Pan American International High School had for the Department of Education at a Jan. 20 rally for justice for three black educators who were allegedly targeted because of their race by the school’s then-Principal.
A 2016 lawsuit brought by then-Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is finally expected to go to trial Feb. 4. It claimed that during the 2012-2013 school year, the DOE allowed Pan American’s former Principal, Minerva Zanca, to use racist language and discriminate against the only black staffers at the school, John Flanagan, Heather Hightower and Lisa-Erika James.
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