ST. PAUL, Minn. – A St. Paul Public Schools field trip for students of color has been canceled after a federal civil rights complaint was made in response to the trip by a Mendota Heights man alleging racial discrimination against “students who are not ‘of color.'”
Mark Perry, who works for organizations Do No Harm and The Equal Protection Project, asked the U.S. Department of Education’s Chicago Office for Civil Rights on Tuesday to open a Title VI investigation into Highland Park Senior High School in relation to the field trip.
Now that the trip is canceled, Perry said he plans to withdraw the complaint once a case number is assigned to it. He said he was hoping that the trip would either be canceled or opened to all students…