DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — The Davenport School district is investigating reports that a teacher was wearing blackface at a public Halloween party. The Quad-City Times reports that Walcott Elementary teacher Megan Luloff was among people at a Halloween party at the Walcott American Legion who portrayed characters from the movie “Napoleon Dynamite.” She reportedly dressed as Lafawnduh, a character who is black. District Superintendent Art Tate says “the wearing of blackface is never appropriate in any circumstance by any person.”

The district is under state supervision because a disproportionate number of minority students have been identified for special education and subject to disciplinary actions. Betty C. Andrews with the Iowa-Nebraska NAACP Conference of Branches says “the revelation that the woman in blackface is a teacher who is expected to provide a safe and equitable classroom environment for all children is very disconcerting.”