A former Sacramento City Unified kindergarten teacher has filed a lawsuit against the district, alleging she was racially discriminated against, denied disability accommodations and later wrongfully terminated.
Lanisha Barney, a Black teacher hired to teach kindergarten at David Lubin Elementary School in September 2024, alleges in the lawsuit that she and her predominantly minority class were kept apart from other two kindergarten classes taught by white teachers.
The complaint alleges that during lunch, Barney’s students had to sit on the far side of the cafeteria, separated from the other kindergarten classes. The lawsuit also alleges that kindergarten students had played together before Barney took over the class, but that after she became their teacher, two white teachers would not let their students play with hers…