# Director of Equity and Inclusion *Office of Independent School District 112 (Eastern Carver County), Minnesota, as named in a federal consent decree.* The Director of Equity and Inclusion is an office of Independent School District 112, the Eastern Carver County school district in Carver County, [[Minnesota]].[^1] The office is named in the terms of a March 2022 federal [[consent decree]] in *T.B., et al. v. Independent School District 112*, No. 0:19-cv-02414 (D. Minn.). That suit was filed on September 3, 2019.[^1][^2] Under the decree, the district's revised race-based harassment policies were to be developed with legal counsel and the district's Director of Equity and Inclusion. They were to be in place no later than the start of classes for the 2022–2023 school year.[^3] The project's at-issue record says the decree is what "made the equity office a court obligation rather than a district choice." That characterization is the project's own. It rests on news reports of the decree, and the pack does not include the decree's text.[^3] ## Who - CBS Minnesota's report on the decree names the district's Director of Equity and Inclusion as developing the revised race-based harassment policies, together with legal counsel.[^3] - The pack names no holder of the office and does not establish when the district created it.[^3] ## What - CBS Minnesota reported the decree's requirements:[^2] - anti-racism and anti-bullying training for all students, embedded in the curriculum; - a dedicated staff team to evaluate potential racial bullying incidents; - revised race-based harassment policies. - The record carries no figures on the office's staffing, budget, or the number of incidents the staff team reviewed.[^2] ## When - **3 September 2019:** *T.B., et al. v. Independent School District 112*, No. 0:19-cv-02414, is filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.[^1] - **March 2022:** A settlement is reached and the consent decree is entered.[^1][^2] - **Start of the 2022–2023 school year:** This is the decree's deadline for the revised policies, which were to be "implemented no later than the start of classes for the 2022-2023 school year."[^3] - **January 2025:** The White House issues the presidential action *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity*. The project's at-issue record pairs this action with the decree.[^5] ## Where - The office belongs to Independent School District 112, the Eastern Carver County school district, in Carver County, Minnesota.[^1][^2] - The press release announcing the 2019 filing describes the plaintiffs as families from [[Chaska]].[^1] - The project's source matrix cites the University of Minnesota [[TRUTH Project]] report of April 11, 2023, for the point that Carver County is 1851-treaty land. The matrix classifies the report as an institutional self-publication. That point is attributed to the matrix and the report, and the pack carries no passage from the report itself.[^4] ## Why - CBS Minnesota reported that the lawsuit alleged the district failed to address racist bullying.[^2] - The release announcing the filing described the suit as a federal civil rights action alleging race discrimination by the district.[^1] - The record states what the suit alleged and what the decree ordered. It does not establish the district's internal reasons for its response.[^1][^2] ## In the at-issue record At-issue entry AI-Carver-076 sets two items beside each other. - **The decree's terms.** These are the training requirement, the staff team, and the revised harassment policies, to be developed with legal counsel and the Director of Equity and Inclusion.[^2][^3] - **The anchor.** This is the January 2025 White House presidential action *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity*.[^5] The pack carries the presidential action's title and web address, but not its text. The record does not establish whether or how that action applies to the district or to the decree.[^5] The entry lists two news sources for the decree's terms, CBS News and the Star Tribune. Only the CBS report is among the citable sources in the pack.[^3] ## Notes [^1]: PR Newswire, *Chaska families represented by Nichols Kaster PLLP and Madia Law LLC file federal civil rights lawsuit against Eastern Carver County School District for rampant race discrimination* (press release, undated in the pack) — announcement of the filing of *T.B., et al. v. Independent School District 112*, No. 0:19-cv-02414 (D. Minn., filed 2019-09-03); the project's matrix pairs it with the March 2022 consent decree. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chaska-families-represented-by-nichols-kaster-pllp-and-madia-law-llc-file-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-against-eastern-carver-county-school-district-for-rampant-race-discrimination-300910956.html [^2]: CBS Minnesota, *Settlement reached in lawsuit that alleged East Carver Co. schools failed to address racist bullying* (March 2022) — settlement and consent decree; the decree's training, staff-team, and policy requirements; the suit's allegation. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/minnesota/news/settlement-reached-in-lawsuit-that-alleged-east-carver-co-schools-failed-to-address-racist-bullying [^3]: CBS Minnesota, *Settlement reached in lawsuit that alleged East Carver Co. schools failed to address racist bullying* (March 2022) — the revised race-based harassment policies, their implementation deadline, and their development with legal counsel and the district's Director of Equity and Inclusion. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/minnesota/news/settlement-reached-in-lawsuit-that-alleged-east-carver-co-schools-failed-to-address-racist-bullying [^4]: University of Minnesota TRUTH Project, *TRUTH Project report* (2023-04-11), hosted by the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council — cited in the project's matrix for Carver County as 1851-treaty land. https://mn.gov/indian-affairs/assets/full-report_tcm1193-572488.pdf [^5]: The White House, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity* (presidential action, January 2025) — the federal anchor of at-issue entry AI-Carver-076. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/