A community member from Fort Worth has lodged a federal complaint against the Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD), alleging racial discrimination due to insufficient investment in African-American students. Wanda McKinney, a taxpayer and volunteer reading coach with Read2Win, a local literacy nonprofit, filed the complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on Monday. McKinney claims the district violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by unfairly allocating federal COVID-19 relief funds, specifically the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds. This complaint focuses on how FWISD used the final round of ESSER funding, totaling $262 million.
