A national civil rights group called Monday for the reinstatement of a southeastern Michigan teacher it says was fired for helping students organize a fundraiser for the family of Trayvon Martin, a teen shot to death by a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer.
The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., said that Brooke Harris was fired in March “with little explanation” from Pontiac Academy for Excellence Middle School.
The center said Harris was fired for her role in a student fundraising effort that was opposed by the charter school’s leader.
Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell told The Associated Press that she couldn’t discuss personnel matters such as Harris’s firing but said she wants students’ focus at the end of the school year to be on learning, not activism.
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