Sharon School Committee Accused Of Racism After Ouster Of First Black Superintendent

On her first day as superintendent of Sharon Public Schools in fall of 2017, Victoria Greer remembers looking out at an auditorium of more than 600 district-wide employees. She was one of three Black staff members in the room, she recalled, the first Black superintendent in a town that prides itself on the quality of its schools and has a population that is steadily growing more diverse — but has few Black teachers.

“There’s me, a custodian at the high school, and there was a paraprofessional,” Greer said of that day. “That was it, as far as diversity.”

The Sharon School Committee unanimously hired Greer to lead the predominantly white and Asian district because of her expertise addressing equity issues. In July, the committee voted in executive session not to offer her a new contract after this year.