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For the first time, a court used a civil rights law to hold a
school district financially accountable in a case of student
bullying. In the recent case of Cohen v. Philadelphia School
District, the court awarded $500,000 to a transgender student
because the school district failed to stop her from being bullied.
What can you learn from this development?
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