""Donald Trump has just made an attempt to re-segregate America," said legislative researcher Allison Chapman."
""The message that it sends is that the people impacted by racial discrimination and harassment don't matter," said Paige Duggins-Clay, an attorney with a Texas nonprofit that has worked with families who've filed racial harassment complaints with OCR."
"Content warning: This story describes in detail incidents of racial and sexual harassment."
Students in Colorado taunted Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on cellphones and saying they should be shot "to make us a better race." The only two Black students in a small Ohio district were called the N-word, labeled "porch monkey," and told to go pick cotton. In Illinois, white students included Confederate flags in class presentations and shook a school bus as Black students exited. The Office for Civil Rights previously struck agreements requiring districts to change practices and monitor compliance. Under the second Trump administration, OCR has entered no new racial-harassment resolution agreements in nearly a year.
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