Two Black teachers who allege they were harassed and discriminated against by students and parents alike within Beverly Hills Unified can proceed to one trial with their collective allegations, a judge has ruled, rejecting defense claims that doing so would result in a “disjointed and prejudicial” proceeding.

During a hearing Monday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brock T. Hammond said it would be less efficient, not more, to litigate the claims of Jarvis Turner and Natonda Ivory in different proceedings. He said the plaintiffs have properly joined their claims.

Attorneys for the district contended in their court papers that expecting a jury to “compartmentalize these legally and factually unrelated claims with facts as inflammatory as a political mob one plaintiff is likening to the K

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