The
School District of Philadelphia
is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights after some parents in the district filed a complaint regarding alleged acts of antisemitism.
According to the School District of Philadelphia Jewish Family Association, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation into the district on April 9.
In the complaint, the association claimed that since the war, “…the District has stood idly by while its teachers and administrators have attacked
, Jewish people, and “Zionists,” both in the classroom and from their public social media.”
Representatives with the association said they have repeatedly tried to reach out to district officials to discuss the situation, but they have not heard back from anyone.
“It’s really just been so many incidents that have gone on since October 7 and nobody has really been doing anything about it at all,” Jason Holtzman, director of JCRC of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, told Action News.