The Boston Public Schools will adopt a comprehensive strategy to address and prevent racial harassment of its students that will include annual trainings, an annual school-wide survey of the racial climate, and the establishment of a diversity/non-discrimination officer, federal authorities announced on Monday, citing the conclusion of a months-long independent investigation of alleged civil rights violations at Boston Latin School.
According to the office of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, the investigation involved interviews with more than 200 people – Boston Latin administrators, faculty, parents, students and alumni – and the review of thousands of pages of documents. Authorities concluded there was one Civil Rights Act violation involving Boston Latin's "mishandling of its review of allegations that a male student addressed a female black student during class using profanity and a racial slur and threatened to lynch her with an electrical cord," according to Ortiz' office.
