A Wisconsin school district has been hit with a federal complaint for allegedly using race-based hiring practices and prioritizing “diversity” over qualifications.
West Allis-West Milwaukee School District’s 2025-2030 strategic plan details explicit goals of “increasing staff diversity” and prioritizing “hiring and retaining a diverse workforce that better reflects our student population.” Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed a federal complaint against the district on Thursday with the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Education (ED) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has been shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“[B]y creating a goal of an increase of ‘diverse’ teachers, the implied, and logical, goal is to reduce the number of teachers that are not ‘diverse.’ This is discriminatory,” the complaint reads. “Furthermore, assigning a numerical value to the goal for race-based hiring, as the District has done, represents an even more direct and egregious affront.”
The district lists its diversity-based hiring metric as its main goal of the 2027-2028 school year, stating the goal “will deepen our impact.” It also states an explicit goal to “Increase diversity in the workforce across key demographic categories from 10% in August 2025 to 25% in August 2030” under the “talent acquisition and employee engagement” section.
