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PA School District Shells Out $68,000 On Diversity Investigation, Internal Reports Show District Went $428,000 Over Budget

Chrissy Clark
PA School District Shells Out $68,000 On Diversity Investigation, Internal Reports Show District Went $428,000 Over Budget
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A Pennsylvania school district shelled out more than $68,000 on a no-bid contract to conduct a “race-based discrimination [and] harassment investigation.” 

In February, Upper Adams School District in Biglerville, Pennsylvania, announced that it used the Philadelphia-based law firm, Fox Rothschild, to conduct an “independent, unbiased assessment of the District’s policies, procedures, and response to alleged acts of racism and/or ethnic discrimination recently shared by students and alumni of Biglerville High School on social media.” 

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