Several lawyers reacted to an agreement between the Minneapolis teachers union and school district to lay off White teachers first, regardless of seniority, saying it is "unconstitutional" and predicting it could end up at the Supreme Court.
"The Supreme Court has been crystal clear, public schools cannot terminate teachers based on their skin color," Kimberly Hermann, general counsel for the Southeastern Legal Foundation told Fox News Digital. "The contract between Minneapolis Public Schools and the local teachers union (aka K-12 cartel) is unconstitutional, illegal and sets our country back decades in race relations."
The agreement, which ended a two-week strike earlier this year, protects "underrepresented" populations from layoffs and is designed "to remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination," according to a spokesperson for Minneapolis Public Schools.
Helen Rella, a trial lawyer at the New York firm Wilk Auslander, noted that "two wrongs don’t make a right."
"If that phrase applied to any situation, it applied here," she told Fox News Digital. "It’s trying to remedy past discrimination with present discrimination, and it’s inappropriate."
She added that the agreement violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
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