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Trump admin targets nation's second-largest school district in investigation of sexual misconduct policies

The U.S. Department of Education announced that its Office for Civil Rights has launched a probe into the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) "for policies that appear to automatically reassign teachers accused of sexual misconduct with students... to another school.""OCR will determine whether the District’s handling of alleged sexual harassment, including sexual assault, by District teachers, administrators, and/or staff violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX)," the department noted in a Tuesday press release.But the school district pushed back in a statement...