the South Orange Maplewood school district is in hot water again this time for landing on a growing list of public schools and universities under federal investigation for alleged discrimination according to nj.com which first reported the story the US Department of education's office for civil rights launched a probe last week no word on whether the investigation is focusing on anti-Semitism or islamophobia for example but it comes roughly a week after the district caught heat for for sending out a document about Ramadan that was accused of being inflammatory and containing anti-semitic language the school system has had other recent incidents of alleged bias the principal of Columbia High School was arrested earlier this month on charges of endangering the welfare of a child which allegedly involved a black female student and in December police investigated anti-semetic threats written on a girl's bathroom stall at the same High School South Orange Maplewood joins rut Newark Newark public schools and tck school district in the federal Department's investigations of bias