Examples of harassment detailed in the report included frequent slurs and racist imagery, as well as a hostile environment where students racial slurs against Black students, displayed confederate flags and Nazi symbols and gave Nazi salutes.
Vermont investigators concluded that students, primarily at the middle school level, faced frequent slurs and racist imagery.
Vermont Business Magazine The Justice Department today announced a settlement agreement with the Elmore-Morristown Unified Union School District (EMUU) in Vermont to resolve its investigation into allegations that the district failed to adequately respond to student-on-student racial harassment.
The U.S Department of Justice and the Elmore-Morristown Unified Union School District have entered an agreement to improve policies and practices.
A Vermont school district’s inadequate response to serious and widespread harassment of Black and biracial students has led to a
This executive order is plainly unconstitutional,” Vermont Attorney General Clark said in a statement Tuesday announcing the lawsuit.
Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.
Why AG Charity Clark is among those who says: "babies born here in Vermont have a constitutional right to be embraced as Vermonters and Americans.”
Vermont has joined 19 other states and two cities challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, kicking off the first legal battles between his new Justice
“I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America, and this executive order is plainly unconstitutional,” said Attorney General Clark. “Babies born here in Vermont have a constitutional right to be embraced as Vermonters and Americans.”
The coalition filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts that seeks to stop what they call an unlawful action by the president.
The Justice Department has reached an agreement with the owner of the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel at SeaWorld in Orlando for allegedly discriminating against people of Arab descent by canceling a conference at the hotel.