PANT V answer ALL 23. Case in August 2021, the Board of Education for Robinson County accepted a recommandation from the superintendent of schools to reduce the teaching staff in the Business Department at Control High School by one. Decisions regarding lyoffs by school boards are highly circumscribed by at low contoured fully must be diffit and layoffs among tenured teachers in the affected subject area or grade level must proceed in reverse order of seniony Seniority for this purpose is calculated according to specific guidelines set by state law. Thus, local boards lack discretion to choose between employees for layoff, except in the rare instance of a tie in seniority between the two or more employees eligible to the last remaining position At the time, the two junior teachers in the department were both of equal seniority, both having begun their employment with the school on the same day nine years in One of those teachers was white, and the other was African American. The African American teacher was the only minority teacher among the faculty in the Business Department, though not in the school The Board determined that it was facing a rare circumstance in deciding between the white and African American teachers. In prior decisions involving the layoff of employees with equal seniority, the board had broken the tie through a random process which included drawing numbers out of a container, drawing lots, or having a lottery. In none of those instances, however, had the employees involved been of different races According to the school board's vice president, after the Board recognized that two teachers were of equal seniority, further assessed their classroom performance, evaluations, volunteerism and certifications and determined that they were two teachers of equal ability and equal qualifications PANY Vanswer ALL 23. Care In August 2001, the Board of Education for Robinson County accepted a recommandation from the superintendent of the trece achegant Business Department at Central High School by one Decisions regarding layoff by school boards why circumscribed by www.notenured my first and layoffs among tenured Teachers in the affected subject area or grade level must proceed in reverse order of seniory Seniority for purpose is coming specific guidelines set by state law. Thus, local boards lack discretion to choose between employees for ayol, except the rain of sy between two more employees igible to the last remaining position At the time, the two junior teachers in the department were both of equat seniority, both having begun their employment with the school on the same day nine years One of those teachers was white, and the other was African American The African American teacher was the only minority teacher among the faculty in the Business Department, though not in the school The Board determined that it was facing a rare circumstance in deciding between the white and African American teachers. In pride decisions moving the tale ployees with equal seniority, the board had broken the tie through a random process which included drawing numbers out of a container, drawing lots of having a lottery in one of those instances, however, had the employees involved been of different races According to the school board's vice president, after the Board recognized that two teachers were of equal seniony ut further assessed their classroom performance, evaluations, volunteerism and certifications and determined that they were "Two teachers of equal ability and equal qualifications The superintendent made the recommendation that the African American teacher be retained and the white teacher be laid off because he believed both teachers had equal seniority, were equally qualified, and because one of the teachers was the only African American tesicher in the Business Department The board made a discretionary decision to invoke the recommendation to break the te between the white and Alirican American teachers. The white teacher was informed that she was being fald off in order to preserve the diversity of the department, because there were already sufficient white teachers in the department Lipon learning this rationale, the white teacher immediately filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming that she had been intentionally discriminated against because of her race a. Can the Complaining Party establish a prima facie case under Title VII, and, if so, on what grounds (against which specific protected class is unlawful discriminated alleged. Why or why not? (4 pts) For the toolbar, res ALT FID PC) or ALTIN 10/Mac