In their mostly white school district, Black students routinely heard racial slurs. White classmates hurled insults like 鈥渟lave,鈥 鈥渕onkey鈥 or worse. It often went unpunished.
Parents made those claims in a 2024 complaint asking the U.S. Education Department to investigate racial bullying at the Pennridge School District in Pennsylvania. They thought their complaint had the power to make things better. Instead, it became one of thousands sitting in a federal office with聽聽after layoffs by the Trump administration.
Families say they鈥檝e had nowhere else to turn.
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