District News Roundup

Staff members of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission claim they have found evidence the Pittsburgh school board engaged in racial discrimination in selecting the district's superintendent.

A community group had filed a complaint over the 1992 hiring decision. It alleged that the board chose Louise Brennan, a white woman serving as the deputy superintendent, over a more qualified outside candidate, Loretta C. Webb, a deputy superintendent in the Fairfax County, Va., system, who is black.

Commission investigators have told lawyers for the district and the advocacy group that they have sufficient evidence to proceed...