福克斯新闻独家报道：科罗拉多州最大的学区之一正面临一项新的联邦民权投诉，起因是该学区与其教师工会作出的一项承诺，内容涉及招聘、留住和晋升有色人种教育工作者。
FIRST ON FOX: One of Colorado's largest school districts is facing a new federal civil rights complaint over a pledge it made with its teachers' union to recruit, retain and advance educators of color.
“捍卫教育”组织于周一向美国教育部提交了一份联邦民权投诉，福克斯新闻数字频道率先获得了这份投诉。投诉指控樱桃溪学区（CCSD）在就业方面存在基于种族的歧视。据该学区网站介绍，CCSD是科罗拉多州第四大学区，为丹佛东南部都市区的5.2万名学生和30多万居民提供服务。
Defending Education filed a federal civil rights complaint Monday, which was first obtained by Fox News Digital, with the U.S. Department of Education alleging that CCSD is discriminating on the basis of race in employment. CCSD is notably Colorado’s fourth-largest school district, and serves 52,000 students and more than 300,000 residents in the southeast Denver metropolitan area, according to the district’s website.
投诉的核心是该学区2023年6月发布的《有色人种教育工作者宣言》，该宣言承诺樱桃溪学区及其教师工会将招聘、留住和晋升有色人种教育工作者，而同一协议中的另一项条款却要求招聘、录用和晋升应基于资质，而不考虑种族。
At the heart of the complaint is the district's June 2023 "Educators of Color Declaration," which commits Cherry Creek School District and its teacher’s union to recruiting, retaining and advancing educators of color, even as a separate provision in the same agreement calls for recruitment, hiring and advancement to be based on qualifications without regard to race.
“捍卫教育”组织副总裁兼高级法律研究员莎拉·帕歇尔·佩里对福克斯新闻数字频道表示：“樱桃溪学区将种族偏好直接写入了教师合同。该学区的《有色人种教育工作者宣言》承诺根据教师的肤色来招聘、留住和晋升教师——这意味着其他同样合格的教师会因同样的原因被跳过。”
"Cherry Creek Schools has written racial preferences directly into its teachers’ contract. The district’s ‘Educators of Color Declaration’ commits it to recruiting, retaining, and promoting teachers based on the color of their skin — which means other equally qualified teachers are passed over for the same reason," Sarah Parshall Perry, Vice President and Senior Legal Fellow at Defending Education, told Fox News Digital.
“这不是多元化；这是歧视，这正是《第六条》和第十四修正案所禁止的。最高法院在‘学生公平录取组织’一案中不可能更明确：法律是不分肤色的，学区不能用笼统的‘平等机会’措辞来治愈基于种族的招聘政策。”《第六条》在特定条件下禁止联邦资助项目中的种族歧视，而《第七条》更直接地管辖就业歧视，这使得樱溪学区教师招聘和晋升承诺的合法性取决于这些政策如何实施。
"That's not diversity; it's discrimination, and it is precisely what Title VI and the Fourteenth Amendment forbid. The Supreme Court could not have been clearer in Students for Fair Admissions: the law is colorblind, and a school district cannot cure a race-based hiring policy with generic 'equal opportunity' language." Title VI prohibits race discrimination in federally funded programs under specified conditions, while Title VII more directly governs employment discrimination, leaving the legality of Cherry Creek's teacher recruitment and advancement commitments dependent on how those policies are implemented.
根据学区的谈判协议，“有色人种教育工作者宣言”还承诺学区及其教师工会有意识地招聘高素质的有色人种教育工作者，同时竭力留住已受雇于该学区的此类人员，并帮助他们晋升到领导岗位。
The "Educators of Color Declaration" also commits the district and its teachers' union to intentionally recruiting highly qualified educators of color while making a concerted effort to retain those already employed by the district and help them advance into leadership positions, according to the district's negotiated agreement.
此外，根据学区2026-2027学年谈判协议，该政策规定：“为实现这些目标，本协议中的所有政策均应体现樱溪学区的核心价值观，以多元、公平与包容（DEI）为谈判工作的基础。”
Additionally, the policy says that "to fulfill these goals, all policies in this agreement shall reflect Cherry Creek School District core values by grounding the work of negotiations in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)," according to the school district's 2026-2027 Negotiated Agreement.
佩里继续说道：“樱溪学区没有义务接受联邦资金，但既然它接受了，就不能为自己的员工队伍搞种族平衡计划，同时还遵守联邦法律。我们要求民权办公室启动调查，并制止这种做法。”捍卫教育组织的最新投诉是在教育部于6月8日宣布对樱溪学区涉嫌资助涉及学生、教师和家长的种族歧视项目展开单独调查之后提出的。
"Cherry Creek is under no obligation to accept federal funding, but because it has, it cannot run a racial balancing scheme for its own workforce and still adhere to federal law," Perry continued. "We are asking the Office for Civil Rights to open an investigation and put an end to it." Defending Education's latest complaint comes after the Department of Education announced a separate investigation on June 8, into allegations that Cherry Creek School District sponsored racially discriminatory programs involving students, teachers and parents.
时任民权事务助理部长的金伯利·里奇在声明中表示：“本学区这些种族歧视行为的指控似乎渗透到学校社区的几乎方方面面，学生、教师和家长都受到影响。联邦法律禁止种族歧视，这意味着种族不能成为学校如何教育学生或培训教师的因素。”特朗普政府一直在打击全国教育系统中的多元化、公平与包容（DEI）相关举措，包括在9月提出新规，将撤销那些在招生、奖学金或其他学校管理项目中考虑种族的私立学校和大学的免税资格。
"These allegations of racially discriminatory conduct in this District seem to permeate almost every aspect of the school community, affecting students, teachers, and parents alike," Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said in a statement at the time. "Federal law prohibits racial discrimination, which means that race cannot be a factor in how the school educates its students or trains its teachers." The Trump administration has been cracking down on DEI efforts across the nation's education system, including proposing new regulations in September that would revoke the tax-exempt status of private schools and colleges that consider race in admissions, scholarships or other school-administered programs.
周一，克拉克县学区（CCSD）未立即回应福克斯新闻数字频道的置评请求。
CCSD did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on Monday.
美国教育部发言人在被要求置评时对福克斯新闻数字频道表示，“教育部不会确认投诉。”
When reached for comment, a Department of Education spokesperson told Fox News Digital that "the Department does not confirm complaints."