FAYETTE COUNTY, Tenn. - A group of teachers from Fayette County filed a lawsuit against the Fayette County School Board, accusing the board of engaging in a pattern and practice of discrimination against Black teachers and administrators.

In the lawsuit, Dr. Towanda Maclin-Brown, Central Director of the Innovation Office with the Fayette County Board of Education and a 25-year veteran educator with Fayette County Schools, said that she was demoted after voicing concerns over proposed and rumored arbitrary changes to the district's organizational chart. She said she was reassigned to an assistant principal position, reducing her annual salary by about $20,000.

Dr. Brian Cunningham, a high school principal with Fayette County Schools who had 16 years of experience with the school district,

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