The office of Civil Rights in the US Department of Education will open a federal investigation into Loudoun County Public Schools response to two charges of sexual assault in the schools in 2021.
The washingtonexaminer.com reported:
“Last week, the department’s office for civil rights notified Ian Prior, a senior adviser at America First Legal and the author of Parents of the World, Unite! How to Save Our Schools from the Left’s Radical Agenda, that the agency had launched an investigation into Loudoun County Public Schools in response to a complaint he filed against the school district in January.
“Because OCR has determined that it has jurisdiction and that the complaint was timely filed, OCR is opening the complaint for investigation,” the department said in a letter to Prior that was reviewed by the Washington Examiner. “Based on the information you provided, OCR will investigate … whether the school division is failing to respond as required by Title IX to notice of sexual assault in School Division high schools.”
“It is paramount that our public schools enact and enforce policies to keep students safe while at school,” Prior said. “A special grand jury report demonstrated that Loudoun County Public Schools woefully failed in that respect, in part because of the utter lack of a competent Title IX process. We are pleased that the Department of Education has opened an investigation into this dereliction of duty.”
Fox5dc.com reported:
“The U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights is opening the complaint for investigation and will investigate whether LCPS failed to respond as required by Title IX to the notice of sexual assault in the systems’ high schools.
The grand jury report found school officials mishandled the situation. The Loudoun County School Board voted not to release the findings of an independent investigation back in February.“
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