Now, what kind of man would fire an elderly, African-American woman? According to the EEOC, the newly-elected Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s choice for school superintendent apparently would…
April 21, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — The ABC7 I-Team has found new legal troubles for Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel’s designated school superintendent.
In this Intelligence Report: Within the past year, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in New York determined that Jean-Claude Brizard violated the federal Civil Rights Act.
This case occurred when Brizard was school superintendent in Rochester, New York. The U.S. EEOC found that Brizard had fired a high-ranking school district official because she was too old and because she was a black woman. Now she is suing Brizard and the Rochester schools in a case that seems to have touched a nerve inside Emanuel’s transition office.
Marilynn Patterson-Grant spent 35 years working her way up to district superintendent in charge of all instructional programs for the Rochester schools. Last summer, school superintendent Brizard fired her, claiming the termination was for poor performance.
Patterson-Gran contended Brizard had made it known that, among other things, she was too old. She filed a complaint with the EEOC.
Last June, this determination from the federal commission: Brizard had “a bias based on age and a bias regarding African-American women.” That cleared the way for 57-year-old Patterson-Grant to file a civil rights lawsuit against Chicago’s soon-to-be appointed school superintendent.
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