In addition to paying one student $735,000 and the other $525,000, the settlement also requires the school district to ensure all district staff complete Title IX training and that high school teachers receive additional training.
to protest its culture, which they said was especially tolerant of inappropriate behavior by male athletes, and the Boulder Valley School District hired its first Title IX coordinator to lead an internal reform effort.
The two former students brought the federal sexual harassment lawsuit in 2021 and alleged that Fairview officials knew during the 2016-2017 school year that the ex-lacrosse player was accused of raping at least two other students, butand did nothing to protect students from facing a hostile environment at school.
Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex and requires schools that receive federal funding to investigate and remedy hostile educational environments, among other obligations. The district also agreed to give all students information and training on consent, sexual assault and sexual harassment during school hours, and the school district will put up posters about sexual assault and Title IX in all of its high schools, as well as publish information about Title IX and the school’s policy of zero tolerance for sexual harassment on several platforms.
The students’ attorneys, John Clune and Kim Hult, said Wednesday that the training and changes at schools were just as important to their clients as monetary damages.
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