After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district
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After the suicide of a nonbinary student last February spurred a monthslong federal investigation, the US Department of Education found Title IX violations in an Oklahoma public school district including multiple failures to respond to notices of sexual harassment.
After the suicide of a nonbinary student last February spurred a monthslong federal investigation, the US Department of Education found Title IX violations in an Oklahoma public school district including multiple failures to respond to notices of sexual harassment. The DOE’s Office of Civil Rights announced a resolution Wednesday with the Owasso Public School District to remedy Title IX violations linked to sexual harassment in district schools. The investigation found a pattern of inconsistent district responses to sexual harassment complaints that were, at times, “deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights.” Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects people from discrimination based on sex in federally funded education programs. The OCR investigation began last March, weeks after the death of nonbinary teen, Nex Benedict. The 16-year-old died a day after a fight with other students in an Owasso High School bathroom. Benedict, whose injuries from the fight sent them to the hospital, told officers and family members at the time that the other students had been bullying them and their friends before the fight broke out, CNN previously reported.
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