School District Officials Defend Record Amid Rising Anti-Semitism

Administrators from prominent school districts defend their record on the handling of anti-Semitism incidents.
School District Officials Defend Record Amid Rising Anti-Semitism
Enikia Ford Morthel, superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District, speaks during a hearing with subcommittee members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on May 8, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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Coming under fire from lawmakers, administrators from prominent school districts across the country defended their record on the handling of anti-Semitism while condemning hatred toward Jews and Israel.

New York City Public Schools Chancellor David Banks, Maryland’s Montgomery County Board of Education Member Karla Silvestre, and California’s Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel appeared before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, which is a part of the House Education and Workforce Committee. Also testifying was American Civil Liberties Union Senior Staff Attorney Emerson Sykes.

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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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