Word: piscataway
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Sharon Taxman, who is white, and Debra Williams, who is black, both worked in the business department of a Piscataway, N.J., high school. Fiscal hardship required the school to trim the business department by one position. Although Taxman and Williams had equal seniority, the school decided to retain Williams, arguing that she lent racial diversity to the faculty...
SETTLEMENT REACHED. Between the PISCATAWAY BOARD OF EDUCATION and SHARON TAXMAN, a white business teacher who sued the board for reverse discrimination after she was laid off in favor of a black colleague with equal seniority; for $433,500; in Piscataway...
...affirmative-action case of the moment is Piscataway v. Taxman, now before the Supreme Court. White teacher Sharon Taxman claims her school board violated her rights when it made a racially based decision to lay her off rather than an equally qualified black colleague. While Piscataway is important, and will doubtless reveal a lot about the Supreme Court's thinking about the constitutional limits on racial preferences, the court's decision is likely to be limited to the narrow context of layoffs. If the Michigan case reaches the high court--and many conservatives are betting it will--it could result...
Briefs were recently filed in the case Piscataway Board of Education v. Taxman, a dispute over the legality of using race as a basis for employment decisions. The court has scheduled oral arguments for later in the fall. Officials worry that a broad ruling in this case could outlaw colleges' use of racial preferences to promote diversity...
...basic issue in the case is whether the Piscataway school board acted unconstitutionally in 1989 when it laid off Sharon Taxman, a white teacher at a local high school, instead of an equally qualified black teacher who was the only minority member of the school's business faculty...