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.
A Vermont school district’s inadequate response to serious and widespread harassment of Black and biracial students has led to a
The family of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border says he was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the time of the Sept.
Lawyers for Civil Rights also sued, alleging Trump's order is unconstitutional based on the language of the 14th Amendment. The civil suit was filed on behalf of an expectant mother and immigration advocacy groups La Colaborativa and the Brazilian Worker Center.
People gathered Tuesday to support a refugee summoned by immigration officials in Vermont as President Trump promises the start of mass deportations. Our Katharine Huntley reports.
This executive order is plainly unconstitutional,” Vermont Attorney General Clark said in a statement Tuesday announcing the lawsuit.
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 Department and Democratic attorneys general.
Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.
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.