(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jackie Thompson makes some comments with the Utah Ethnic Studies Coalition during a public hearing on teaching about racism in the K-12 classrooms on Thursday, July 22, 2021. Thompson is now taking over as an assistant superintendent in Davis School District to respond to the reports of serious and systemic racism there that was going ignored by administrators, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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