Those course descriptions had indicated the courses were to be “restricted” to students who “identify” as particular races and genders.įor instance, a course listed as MA0512 Precalculus was listed as being restricted for 10th, 11th and 12th grade students “who identify as Black male.” Perry’s complaint centers on course descriptions published by Evanston Township High School District 202 for at least five math courses. Perry then immediately filed a complaint against ETHS with the Chicago OCR on April 30.

Perry is also described as a longstanding civil rights activist, who has filed more than 800 complaints with the Office of Civil Rights against colleges and public school districts. Those tweets caught the attention of Mark Perry, an economist, scholar and blogger with the American Enterprise Institute and other organizations. Over the weekend of April 29-30, conservative activist and radio host Dan Proft posted tweets drawing attention to Advanced Placement calculus and other advanced mathematics courses at ETHS, which were described in the school’s class catalog as being “restricted” to students of certain races and genders. Within hours of being slapped with a federal civil rights complaint, administrators overseeing curriculum at Evanston Township High School appear to have rewritten course descriptions for high-level math courses that initially had been designed to be set aside for Black or Latino students, and in at least one instance, solely for Black males.

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