The House Committee on Education and the Workforce released its report Wednesday. It said political activism had displaced educational neutrality and contributed to an environment where antisemitism was minimized or excused. The report also criticized lessons it said excused violence and a curriculum unit that characterized all resistance as “righteous.”

District spokesperson Monique Braxton said the report distorted the district’s record and objected to what she called its “blatantly partisan framing,” issued days before the November midterm election. She said the district had introduced a new records-management system, revised policies, made annual staff training mandatory and taken disciplinary action. The district said it remains committed to a safe and welcoming environment for students and staff.

Board of Education President Reginald Streater also rejected the committee’s conclusions, saying Superintendent Tony Watlington and district staff had taken significant steps to combat antisemitism and other forms of hate.

The report said no other employees had been adequately disciplined for spreading antisemitism. The district’s response follows a dispute that intensified last month, when Pennsylvania Republican House leaders asked the state attorney general to investigate alleged discrimination against Jewish students. They argued in a letter that Jewish students faced a systemic pattern of discrimination limiting equal access to education.

In a response to the committee, Watlington said teachers and administrators would no longer write the social studies curriculum. The district’s social studies curriculum director was also undergoing termination proceedings, according to the report’s account.

The allegations and the district’s response leave questions about curriculum oversight, staff accountability and protections for Jewish students at the center of a public debate over how Philadelphia schools address antisemitism and other forms of hate.