Trump Administration Stalls Dozens of School Civil Rights Investigations Initiated Under Biden

The United States Education Department has stalled dozens of school civil rights investigations that were initiated under the Biden administration. Among the frozen cases is a complaint forwarded to the Office for Civil Rights regarding Chesaning Middle School in Michigan. In 2024, the school's only fifth-grade Black female student endured severe racial harassment, including being called a monkey and having the n-word hurled at her by other students, leaving her traumatized.

Civil rights investigations stalled

• ▪A complaint forwarded to the United States Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights detailed racial harassment that left a Michigan middle-school student traumatized.
• ▪The United States Education Department was in talks with dozens of school districts at the end of the Biden administration, but those civil rights cases have stalled since the president took office.

Chesaning Middle School harassment

• ▪A fifth-grade student at Chesaning Middle School in Michigan was called a 'monkey' on the school bus and had the n-word hurled at her by other students.
• ▪The only Black girl in the fifth grade at Chesaning Middle School in central Michigan endured a string of racial slurs by February 2024.

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