ALBANY - The state Division of Human Rights has no jurisdiction to investigate complaints against public school districtsonly private schoolsa deeply splintered Court of Appeals ruled yesterday in two cases where black students were allegedly harassed and bullied by white students.
By a 4-3 margin, the high court said that because the Human Rights Law limits the agency’s jurisdiction to an “education corporation or association,” the Legislature apparently meant to apply the statute only to “private, non sectarian entities that are exempt from taxation,” and not public school districts or parochial schools.
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