TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Aug 30, 2024

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights today announced that Memphis-Shelby County Schools violated federal civil rights law by not adequately responding to complaints of sexual harassment and assault of students over a three-year period. Chalkbeat reports that district documents reflect reports that teachers or substitute teachers sexually assaulted students in seven incidents across three school years at all school levels in the district. Documents also show 53 more cases of reported staff-to-student sexual harassment, not including sexual assault, as well as a total of 88 cases of student-to-student sexual harassment during the same time period.