California School District Cited for Failing to Deal With Anti-Semitic, Racist Vandalism

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights cites 15 incidents in Carmel Unified Schools between 2021 and this year.

Student protesters set up at the intersection of Campus Drive and W. Peltason Drive near the University of California–Irvine in Irvine, Calif., on April 29, 2024. Rudy Blalock/The Epoch Times

The U.S. Department of Education is sanctioning a school district in Northern California after administrators there allegedly failed to take appropriate action in more than 15 racist and anti-Semitic incidents that were reported on campuses between 2021 and 2024.

The federal agency’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on July 26 sent a letter to Carmel Unified School District Superintendent Sharon Ofek summarizing its investigation of the incidents, which included nine instances in which racist and anti-Semitic writings/drawings appeared in bathrooms, locker rooms, and on school supplies during the 2021–2022 academic year that the district failed to document.