racial harassment

A Davis School District bus sits at the Bus Farm in Farmington, Utah, in this undated photo. In a probe released Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, by the Department of Justice???s Civil Rights Division, the investigation found widespread racial harassment of Black and Asian American students at the Utah school district, including hundreds of documented uses of the N-word and other racial epithets over the last five years. (Matt Gade/The Deseret News via AP)

DOJ: Utah School District Ignored Years of Racial Harassment

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By Nicole Chavez, Black and Asian American students were harassed at a school district in Utah for years and officials deliberately ignored complaints from parents and students, a federal civil rights investigation found. The Justice Department detailed the disturbing pattern at the Davis School District in Farmington, Utah in a report and settlement agreement released this week. The agency had been investigating the

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