The Education Department had been in discussions with numerous school districts towards the end of the Biden administration. These discussions have not progressed since the president took office.

A mother’s complaint to the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights highlights racial harassment experienced by her daughter, a middle-school student, which she claims has caused significant trauma.

In 2024, during Black History Month at Chesaning Middle School in central Michigan, the only Black girl in the fifth grade faced severe racial harassment. On the school bus, she endured being called a ‘monkey.’ Other students used the n-word and likened her skin to being ‘burnt like a piece of chicken.’