Just to be clear, the way that race is used in the article creates the implication of collusion.  Since they're not listed, I don't know anyone's race, but how does this read:

Also on Friday, Suzanne Price, the district’s director of elementary education, who is white, sent a letter to parents of Page Elementary students, informing them that Lange “will be out of the office for the remainder of the school year” and that Mike Donnelly, a white semi-retired former district administrator, was taking over the school’s day-to-day operations, assisted by a teacher on special assignment, Kimberly Ingram.

All of a sudden, it reads like the white people are collaborating in some unsavory way.