New York Daily News: Four white teachers in a predominantly poor, black Philadelphia school are suing a black principal, charging that he suggested they were unfit to teach black students. Principal Charles Ray III was also charged with treating the white teachers differently than black instructors at Thomas Mifflin Elementary School. "Charles Ray consistently stated that he had a relationship with top school officials indicating that his conduct was part of an approved policy or was part of a pattern of practices sanctioned and supported by 'higher authority,'" the lawsuits said.