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CLAIRE GALLOWAY-JONES<\/mark><\/strong> stepped up to lead the Brookline school district\u2019s Office of Educational Equity in July 2023 at a time when families, staff, and students were losing trust.<\/p>\n

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The wealthy, coveted district on Boston\u2019s edge faced allegations of repeatedly failing to address incidents of racial bullying and harassment, including a case in which an eighth grader knelt on a Black classmate\u2019s neck, mimicking the murder of George Floyd. Educators of color had a pattern of staying only a few years; from 2021 to 2023, 18 left their positions. The Brookline school district, whose staff declined to comment for this article, has also churned through five superintendents in the last decade. <\/p>\n

At the start of the 2024-25 school year, the district announced a projected $8 million budget deficit, and all operations funding for Galloway-Jones\u2019s department was pulled. She sought other sources of funding, including a $25,000 state grant to recruit and retain teachers of color. But she said the district denied the routine request without explanation.<\/p>\n

By spring, the school board proposed closing the office altogether, citing budget constraints and saying that the office didn\u2019t provide enough direct student support. Enraged, parents and local organizers raised more than $188,000 in an attempt to save it. But in March 2025, the school board voted 5-4 to shutter the office; all funds raised were returned to donors. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m disappointed,\u201d said Galloway-Jones, whose office had responsibility for supporting students from marginalized backgrounds, recruiting and retaining Black and brown educators, and holding anti-bias trainings, among other work. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think that people are being honest and transparent about what\u2019s happening,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cThey didn\u2019t value the work because they didn\u2019t understand it.\u201d <\/p>\n

The district is one of at least four in Massachusetts that have cut DEI initiatives or positions despite community support, citing shrinking student enrollments and rollbacks in federal funding that threaten school budgets. The Trump administration\u2019s ongoing attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have also produced a chilling effect, educators say, even as its anti-DEI directives for K-12 schools have been defeated in court. <\/p>\n

Some parents, educators and experts say that losing offices and education leaders whose sole job is to advance equity \u2014 by reducing racial disparities in academics, school discipline, and staffing \u2014 will have both short- and long-term consequences for Black, brown, and low-income students and those with disabilities. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf students don\u2019t feel a sense of belonging, and if they don\u2019t feel heard and valued, then they are less likely to pursue higher education and career opportunities,\u201d said Jennifer Herring, executive director of the Worcester Education Collaborative, which supports the city\u2019s public schools, and an adjunct professor of psychology and the impact of school trauma in eastern Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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One month before Brookline cut Galloway-Jones\u2019s office, the federal Department of Education\u2019s \u201c\u201d letter threatened to pull funding from schools that engaged in DEI programs or curricula or that provided services in support of students from specific racial or ethnic groups. The department said those efforts discriminated against white and Asian students.<\/p>\n

After the American Federation of Teachers and other groups sued, the guidance was struck down by a federal judge in August for being unconstitutionally vague, infringing on free speech, and violating procedural rules. The Trump administration dropped its appeal in late January and reached a separate settlement with the NAACP, another plaintiff, agreeing to cease use of its NoDEI portal and refrain from reinstating the letter or related guidance under any other names. <\/p>\n

Michaele Turnage Young, co-lead counsel with the NAACP\u2019s Legal Defense Fund, said her group and others are now trying to spread the word that \u201cthese documents have been declared to be unlawful and unconstitutional; they have been in every sense of the word neutralized,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s perfectly fine for students to learn about systemic racism, whether that shows up in instruction about the civil rights movement, slavery, in any aspect of our history or our present.\u201d <\/p>\n

Four New England states \u2014 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island \u2014 said they would not comply with the anti-DEI even before it was struck down in court. In an April 2025 letter to the federal government, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education defended diversity initiatives, citing them as \u201ca reason for our success, not a barrier to it.\u201d Gov. Maura Healey and Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell have also pledged to challenge anti-DEI education policies.<\/p>\n

After initially asking its districts to submit letters stating their compliance with the federal anti-DEI guidance, Vermont\u2019s education secretary walked back that request. She also publicly affirmed DEI practices and sent a response to the Trump administration saying it was not in violation of the directive because it complied with state and federal law. <\/p>\n

New Hampshire is the only state in the region that has not publicly affirmed DEI. The state\u2019s House education chair advocated for politically segregated schools in messages leaked to the Concord Monitor<\/em> this February. Several New Hampshire districts, including Nashua and Inter-Lakes, signed the letter\u2019s certification requirement to cease DEI efforts before it was struck down. The state is among several around the country to pass what appear to be codified versions of the letter, in the form of \u201cparental rights\u201d laws.<\/p>\n

Though an anti-DEI bill previously passed in New Hampshire was blocked by a federal judge who argued it could reduce support for students with disabilities, some legislators are making a renewed attempt at passage this session. Soon up for a vote in the state Senate, their Countering Hate and Revolutionary Leftist Indoctrination in Education (CHARLIE) Act would prohibit any history teachings that show conflict as being between an \u201coppressed\u201d and \u201coppressor\u201d or any discussion of systemic racism. Violations could affect teachers\u2019 licensure. The legislation, named after the late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, is opposed by the state\u2019s attorney general, who said it would prompt litigation for being unconstitutional and risks being in conflict with existing civil rights law.<\/p>\n

But even in states that say they maintain their commitments to DEI, such as Massachusetts, some diversity work is being walked back. School districts say the cuts and department closures reflect broader financial troubles: Brookline, for instance, has cut nearly 20 central office positions in recent years. <\/p>\n

Brockton Public Schools \u2014 a majority-Black district of about 15,000 students south of Boston \u2014 closed its equity, diversity and inclusion office in 2024 amid a projected $25 million deficit. Four staff positions were dissolved. The district planned at first to move the work under a single director, but hiring challenges and continued financial problems prevented it from doing so, Jordan Mayblum, the district\u2019s communications director, wrote in an email. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat said, our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion remains unwavering,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt is our belief that the work ultimately belongs to everyone in the district every day, rather than within a single department.\u201d <\/p>\n

Among the halted equity work was an annual conference that brought staff, students, educators, and local organizations from across the state to discuss bias, trauma-based practices, deescalation, and restorative justice, according to Leon Smith, attorney and director of Citizens for Juvenile Justice and a former presenter at the conference. <\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people do not feel included every day they come here. I can hear it in the hallways,\u201d said Marcos Gomes, one of several high school students to protest Brockton\u2019s decision to cut the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion office, at an April 2024 school committee meeting. \u201cI feel like the EDI program has really changed that.\u201d Another student, Amelia Viera, called the office \u201cnothing short of life-changing,\u201d adding, \u201cWe discovered a sense of purpose that previously eluded us.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Framingham Public Schools, a demographically diverse district about 20 miles west of Boston that is home to many multilingual families, hired a new director of belonging in December 2025 to \u201cstrengthen inclusive practices, elevate student and family voice, and foster a welcoming, equitable learning environment across all FPS schools.\u201d Two months later, however, the district considered eliminating the position to help address a $9 million budget cut. Framingham has lost more than 700 students over the last two school years. <\/p>\n

The district had already terminated its diversity, inclusion, and compliance manager, a similar position ensuring adherence to civil rights law, in March 2024, citing budget constraints. The manager, Saundra Edwards, filed a lawsuit against the district that alleged Framingham had denied her and others professional advancement and wrongfully terminated her. She is one of several Black women suing the district for discrimination. <\/p>\n

Framingham did not respond to requests for comment. <\/p>\n

This April, another Boston-area district, Newton Public Schools, approved a new budget that included cuts to its diversity office. The district superintendent, who declined to comment for this article, said in a public presentation that the cuts were necessitated by rising health care and utility costs, among other factors. <\/p>\n

The district created the DEI office in 2020, and at one point it employed two full-time people and one-part time person. By this school year, only the DEI director was left; the new cuts will reduce that person\u2019s work to part time. <\/p>\n

Newton serves roughly 11,000 students, and some parents said that even before the latest cuts, there wasn\u2019t enough support for those from underrepresented backgrounds. \u201cI thought it was inadequate as it was,\u201d said Rielle Montague, who has two children in Newton public schools. \u201cTo me, it\u2019s a big statement to say, \u2018You know what, it\u2019s not even that important to have a full-time person for this large school district.\u2019 It is very disappointing and a step in the wrong direction.\u201d <\/p>\n

In Brookline, some families see lasting harm from the Trump administration\u2019s anti-DEI letter and the diversity office\u2019s closure. <\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes people just need a permission structure to do what they might have done on their own if they didn\u2019t feel like they were gonna be cast as racist or bigoted,\u201d said Raul Fernandez, a parent who is the director of local group Brookline for Racial Justice and Equity, which raised funds to try to save Galloway-Jones\u2019 office. \u201cThat letter was all some people needed to say, \u2018OK, great. Now we have the pretext to say it\u2019s not us.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

During public meetings, Brookline\u2019s school board members said equity initiatives would be maintained by other district offices. But beyond a preexisting partnership it had with Steps to Success, a local nonprofit supporting students living in Brookline Housing Authority properties, no supplemental initiatives have been communicated in the year since the vote closing the equity office, according to parents and students. <\/p>\n

The district also recently lost a program dedicated to closing opportunity gaps in math for Black, Latino, and low-income students, the Calculus Project, after a dispute over its implementation. (It has now replaced the program with a different one, Fostering Excellence in Math, or FEx, school board member Mariah Nobrega wrote in an email. She also highlighted the continued existence of several cultural affinity groups for students from underrepresented backgrounds.) <\/p>\n

\u201cI can understand the frustration with the longstanding issues around disparate outcomes in Brookline, as I feel frustration too. I encourage people to report issues they are experiencing,\u201d wrote Nobrega, who was among four board members to vote against the office\u2019s closure. <\/p>\n

Sofia Laforest, a Black 10th grader involved with Steps to Success and the Calculus Project, said of the math program, \u201cIt was important and it did help. I kind of feel bad for the kids who aren\u2019t going to get to experience it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Laforest said she has also felt the absence of diversity in teaching staff, having attended Brookline schools since kindergarten. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever had a teacher of color who wasn\u2019t a sub, and I\u2019ve gone here for 10 years now.\u201d <\/p>\n

Galloway-Jones\u2019s equity office was charged with ensuring students like Laforest from marginalized backgrounds in the district had equal opportunity to succeed academically and socially.<\/p>\n

Her resolve to continue the work is clear. Once a Boston kid bused to Brookline in the 1980s as part of the famed METCO desegregation program, which she later went on to lead for a decade, she now runs a consulting business for equity and executive leadership. <\/p>\n

\u201cI always said it\u2019s kind of in my DNA,\u201d said Galloway-Jones, descendant of Sarah and Benjamin Roberts, the first family in the nation to legally challenge school segregation 176 years ago. In 2025, Boston Public Schools opened a new K-6 school named after Sarah Roberts in Roslindale. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think about that repair and the work that we\u2019re doing, you say to yourself, \u2018You know what, it\u2019s tough, it\u2019s hard, but we can do it,\u2019\u201d Galloway-Jones said. \u201cWe have to continue to do it. Diversity work, equity work, is not a one and done.\u201d <\/p>\n

Caroline Preston contributed reporting. <\/em> <\/p>\n

Marianna McMurdock is a Boston-based journalist and contributing managing editor to the Bay State Banner. She worked previously as a reporter for The 74. <\/em><\/p>\n

This story was produced by <\/em>The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for <\/em>the Hechinger newsletter<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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