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NYC schools face Biden administration probe of antisemitism, Islamophobia
November 29, 2023 9:04PM ET
Hillcrest High School on Highland Avenue in Queens is pictured on Saturday, June 17, 2023. - Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/TNS
NEW YORK — The Biden administration has launched an investigation into discrimination in New York City’s public school system, the latest in a series of federal probes of antisemitism and Islamophobia at schools across the U.S. this fall. The federal Education Department declined to describe the contours of its investigation into the city Department of Education, but said the investigation began on Tuesday and was part of a series of “ancestry investigations.” The probes have focused on complaints of antisemitism and anti-Muslim bigotry, according to the Biden administration. Two of the probes...