U.S. Education Department gives Carroll ISD 90 days to address discrimination complaints
The U.S. Department of Education has apparently substantiated civil rights complaints by four students against Carroll Independent School District schools in Southlake and has given the school district 90 days to reach an agreement to address the discrimination, NBC News reported today (Thursday, May 9). He civil rights enforcement arm of the Education Department sent a letter on May 6 to the NAACP, which is representing the students who lodged the complaints, explaining what the department’s next steps are.
The four students have all either graduated or left Carroll ISD since telling the Education Department that they had faced racist and homophobic slurs and comments, NBC reports.
One student said he suffered retaliation about reporting racist harassment to school officials. Another said he was repeatedly bullied by classmates because of his sexual orientation, to the point that he considered suicide, and that school officials did nothing to stop the bullying.
Southlake schools made national news in 2018 when a video of white high school students repeatedly chanting the “N” word went viral.
