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Private Education Matters
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DATE: Mar 05, 2025
- John Bosco High School and its head football coach, Jason Negro, are facing a lawsuit filed by three former employees, including the School’s former president, who allege that the program engaged in embezzlement to cover tuition costs for top recruits. The former employees allege that they were required to handle program revenues exclusively in cash without proper oversight or record-keeping, storing substantial amounts of cash in a personal office safe, and using funds for personal expenses such as staff retreats. The former employees also allege that assistant coaches were directed to deliver cash payments to cover players’ overdue tuition, potentially violating California Interscholastic Federation bylaws. The former employees claim they were wrongfully terminated as a way to protect the football program from scrutiny over these alleged illegal activities.
- A group called Students Against Racial Discrimination has filed a lawsuit against The Regents of the University of California, alleging that the UC system unlawfully uses racial preferences in admissions at all nine campuses, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. section1981, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiffs argue that these policies discriminate against Asian American and white applicants, allowing students from underrepresented racial groups to gain admission with lower academic credentials. The complaint also asserts that the UC system has implemented “holistic” admissions policies as a way to circumvent California’s Proposition 209, which prohibits race-based affirmative action in public education. The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief to prohibit the use of race in admissions decisions, prevent applicants from disclosing their race, and appoint a court monitor to oversee UC admissions to ensure compliance with anti-discrimination laws.
- Former preschool director Katherine Diaz and the Westminster Schools, a private school in Georgia, agreed to bear their own costs and expenses and drop Diaz’s case against the School. Diaz, who is of Filipino, Chinese, and Japanese descent, sued the School, alleging she faced disparaging comments from her supervisors, and that the School withheld her pay and threatened to expel her son who was enrolled there, if she spoke out against the School. Westminster argued that Diaz’s firing was due to her encouraging colleagues to call out of work in order to “stick it” to the School, and that none of the alleged racist comments constituted discrimination. LCW covered this case previously .
- The NCAA and a group of Division I volunteer baseball coaches have agreed to settle a proposed antitrust class action lawsuit that challenged the organization’s since-repealed “uniform wage fix” bylaw that prevented volunteer coaches from getting compensated market value for their services. The underlying lawsuit alleged that the NCAA conspired with member schools to illegally fix the number of assistant coaches that Division I baseball teams may employ, thereby setting compensation of additional “volunteer” coaches at zero dollars. The suit alleged that the NCAA and member schools violated federal and California antitrust law because the rules made it so the NCAA faced little competition from other buyers, allowing them to set prices or wages at a lower level than in a competitive market. The trial court had previously held that the arrangement was a horizontal price fixing scheme.
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