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Texas school district is being investigated for alleged discrimination. - The US Department of Education is probing Carroll Independent School District, a spokesperson said.
The US Department of Education is investigating allegations of discrimination at a Texas school district where an administrator pushed for teachers to feature "opposing" views of the Holocaust, a spokesperson confirmed to Insider on Wednesday.
Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, is being probed by the education department's civil rights division in three separate investigations, the report said.
Both the Department of Education and the school district did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
The district is "fully cooperating with this process," a district spokeswoman told NBC news.
The federal investigations are the latest move that thrusts Carroll Independent School District into the spotlight.
In October, an administrator at the Texas district told teachers to balance out classroom libraries with books that have "opposing" views on topics like the Holocaust and racism.
During a training session, the district's executive director of curriculum and instruction, Gina Peddy, reportedly told teachers to include books that have differing perspectives, and specifically cited the Holocaust as a "controversial" issue, according to NBC News.
Earlier this month, opponents of an anti-racism diversity plan took control of the district's board. The plan had been proposed in response to a 2018 incident in which students were recorded chanting racist slurs.
The plan was originally proposed in 2020 but was pushed to 2021. It's been targeted by parents who leveled accusations that the plan is evidence of so-called "critical race theory."
Critical race theory is an academic framework largely used at the university level that has become a rallying cry for conservative leaders and the focus of baseless accusations that teachers are indoctrinating students with racist rhetoric.