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West Texas parents are suing their schools over racism as others demand action over antisemitic bullying
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LUBBOCK — Dad and mom, stuffed with anger and disbelief, have confronted college leaders within the Lubbock space over a collection of racist and antisemitic incidents in a number of faculties.
In whole, 4 separate incidents have come to mild in latest weeks.
Two episodes — each involving Black college students focused in fixed bullying by their friends and inaction by college officers, dad and mom say — have led to separate federal civil rights lawsuits.
On the coronary heart of the 2 lawsuits is the ache dad and mom say their youngsters have endured on account of months of fixed and violent bullying — together with an Instagram account that posted photographs of Black college students from a Lubbock center college with racist captions, and racial discrimination by college officers towards college students at the highschool in Slaton, about 17 miles south of Lubbock.
A 3rd South Plains college district — Roosevelt ISD — had a mother or father file a federal grievance towards them for racial discrimination by college officers. There, a mom took her daughter out of college after she claims college officers focused her little one for undue disciplinary actions.
In the meantime, a threatening antisemitic petition was handed round by a pupil at one other Lubbock center college. Dad and mom say they’re dissatisfied the college hasn’t had a powerful response.
On their very own, these may seem to be remoted incidents of school-age angst. Nevertheless, racially pushed and antisemitic incidents are on the rise in Texas. And now 4 totally different college districts within the South Plains are going through tensions emblematic of the widespread drawback. As a substitute of addressing it instantly, dad and mom say college officers attempt to sweep the problems beneath the rug.
Lubbock-Cooper ISD — which incorporates Laura Bush Center College, the place the Instagram account was primarily based — declined to touch upon the federal lawsuit.
“Racism has no place at any college inside Lubbock-Cooper ISD,” the district added in an announcement. “It’s not a mirrored image of our beliefs as a college and it fully contradicts the virtues we want to instill in our college students.”
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Black college students on the Laura Bush Center College inn Lubbock-Cooper ISD had been allegedly bullied over months, together with with an Instagram account that posted photographs of them with racist captions.
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Lubbock dad and mom are grappling with sending their youngsters to colleges the place they might not really feel secure due to their pores and skin coloration or faith, significantly with officers on the helm who dad and mom now not belief.
“They know that there’s an issue however they don’t wish to do something about it,” stated Tracy Kemp, a mom of three children within the Lubbock-Cooper district and a participant within the federal grievance. “They might somewhat us go away than to alter.”
Black college students make up 3% of Lubbock-Cooper’s pupil physique. The grievance, which was a joint submitting with the households, Intercultural Improvement Analysis Affiliation and the Lubbock NAACP, alleges the college is understood for its frequent, constant and excessive discriminatory practices towards its Black college students.
The Lubbock-Cooper college district covers Southwest Lubbock, serving households on the farthest edges of Lubbock’s latest developed space and households from close by communities.
The grievance particulars the near-daily harassment and bullying a number of Black college students needed to endure since final spring, which included being known as racial slurs and listening to the sounds of cracking whips as they walked by way of the halls.
The grievance additionally alleges that the incidents — which lasted for months — would typically result in bodily threats and acts of violence towards Black college students by their white friends. Kemp’s son was one of many college students focused in these assaults. Kemp thinks the assaults escalated as a result of she was bringing consideration to the matter. The college, she stated, nonetheless hasn’t had a significant response in additional than eight months.
“They don’t have anything to point out for it as a result of they’ve performed nothing about it,” Kemp stated. “They’ve put out injury management statements as a result of we’ve gone to the press, however they’ve by no means come to us.”
Dad and mom reported the hostile acts to highschool administration, however they are saying officers didn’t take motion to finish the harassment and would typically punish the victims. Lubbock-Cooper ISD stated it has responded to complaints by instituting extra range coaching amongst academics, directors and college students.
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Comparable incidents had been reported within the grievance towards Slaton Excessive College, the place there are about 20 Black college students. In a single occasion, the lawsuit claims, a Black pupil confronted unfair punishment for retaliating towards a white pupil for repeatedly calling her racist slurs. In an announcement to NBC Information, Slaton Superintendent Jim Andrus stated the district trains employees repeatedly on find out how to tackle bullying allegations.
At Hutchinson Center College in Lubbock, a mother or father alleged a pupil requested friends to signal a sheet of paper after calling for violence towards Jewish folks, in keeping with emails obtained by The Texas Tribune. The mother or father prompt not all college students who signed understood what it was for and a few college students signed, with actual and pretend names.
Directors decided there was not an imminent menace to college students and didn’t ship out an e mail informing the general public, regardless of being requested to take action by a Jewish mother or father. The college district claimed sending an e mail out could be a violation of the Household Academic Rights and Privateness Act as a result of it might reveal the scholar’s id.
Lubbock Rabbi Deborah Goldmann emailed the principal and superintendent concerning the incident. In emails obtained by the Tribune, Goldmann stated the group learns the habits is suitable as a result of there was no response.
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A mother or father alleged a pupil at J.T. Hutchinson Center College in Lubbock requested friends to signal a sheet of paper after calling for violence towards Jewish folks, in keeping with emails obtained by The Texas Tribune.
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Michael Stewart, the principal of Hutchinson Center College, responded to her saying the college has addressed the habits with the person concerned and college students who signed and that they’re growing classes to handle the cultural and spiritual backgrounds of scholars.
“It does appear that you’re beating across the bush and uncomfortable addressing antisemitism,” Goldmann wrote again. “In the event that they felt comfy going round asking folks to signal that paper, they’re in an atmosphere the place different college students really feel the identical degree of consolation.”
Roosevelt ISD, 10 miles east of Lubbock, can be going through an official grievance with the U.S. Division of Schooling’s Workplace for Civil Rights. Kristen Arnold alleges that her daughter was being racially discriminated towards by college officers and was falling behind in courses due to unjust punishments. In an effort to guard her daughter’s psychological well being, Arnold pulled her from Roosevelt Excessive College simply earlier than her senior 12 months. She is now doing a homeschool program to have the ability to graduate.
“They actually harassed her proper out of highschool,” Arnold advised the Tribune. “She’s been scuffling with melancholy and nervousness.”
Based on emails obtained by the Tribune, Arnold shared her considerations and tried to fulfill with Roosevelt Superintendent Dallas Grimes about the issue in Might. In response, Grimes stated they’ve heard her grievances and had been conscious of the report she was submitting.
“Until there may be new info to coach me on, I’m undecided what the aim of the assembly could be,” the e-mail reads.
Arnold was intimidated by the response and withdrew her complaints, however refiled in June. The case is now pending on the federal division of training. In an e mail to the Tribune, Grimes stated the district knew she withdrew her complaints however was unaware of the brand new submitting.
North Texas remains the most populated region in the state with more than 8.3 million residents, due in part to staggering growth in Collin County, which added more than 145,000 residents in the last four years, as well as continued growth in Fort Worth, which appears to have surpassed Austin as the fourth most populous city in the state.
From 2020 to January 2024, North Texas has gained over 560,000 residents, according to new population estimates by the Texas Demographic Center (TDC). The population explosion is most notable in Collin, Tarrant, Denton, Rockwall, and Kaufman counties. According to the data, these counties lead the state in either numeric gains or percentage increases over the last four years.
Collin County added almost 145,000 residents in the last four years, the most significant increment in the state. The county now has 1.2 million residents, most of them in the cities of McKinney (about 220,000 people), Frisco (220,000 people) and Allen (110,000 people), as of January 2024. Denton County also saw considerable growth and gained more than 100,000 residents over the last four years, surpassing a million inhabitants.
Celina, a city in the counties of Denton and Collin, had over 43,000 residents, according to the January 2024 estimates. This city more than doubled its population from nearly 17,000 people in the 2020 Census.
“Well, I think a lot of that has to do with where we’re located,” elaborated Joe Monaco, Director of Marketing & Communications of Celina City.
“We have Preston on one side; we’ve got the Tollway expanding on the other side. We are 40 miles away from Dallas, and we’re really benefiting a lot from all the businesses that are coming into Dallas and especially the North Texas area.”
Originally from Ohio, Monaco said he lived in Mansfield and Frisco before settling in Prosper with his family during the pandemic.
“What attracted us is that we wanted to be in an area where our kids had great schools like all parents do,’ he said, “and we wanted to be in the area we felt very safe.”
Collin’s growth in the last years has been so rapid that it has already met one of the two scenarios of what this county’s population would be in 2030. The demographic center, in 2012, projected Collin to have 1.2 million people at the end of the decade in a scenario with half of the 2010-2020 migration rates. The second projection (assuming the 2010-2020 migration rates) estimates Collin to reach 1.3 million by the end of 2030, 1.6 million people by 2040, and 2.4 million by 2060.
Other examples of North Texas’ expansion are Kaufman and Rockwall, two neighboring Dallas counties, which experienced the highest percentage growth in population in the state. Kaufman’s population grew by 26.7%, or about 39,000 residents, from 2020 to 2024. Rockwall increased its population by 25% in the same period, growing the county by about 28,000 residents.
Tarrant, in turn, has gained more than 93,000 residents from 2020 to 2024, a 4.4% increase. Its total estimated population is 2.2 million, from 2.1 million last year. Fort Worth alone took in more than 70,000 new residents from 2020 to 2024, and its current population stands at almost 990,000 inhabitants. The newest figures by TDC suggest Fort Worth might have just surpassed Austin in population. The capital of Texas has about 987,000 inhabitants, according to the January 2024 estimates.
“Growth has been explosive,” said Jaime Resendiz, real estate agent and host of The DFW Homeowner, a YouTube channel exploring the housing market in the area. “There’s growth on the south side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, but the North just blows it out of the water.”
“Anything that is North is just going to have high demand, and typically there, with the real estate prices, you’re seeing the appreciation in these areas just go through the roof,” Resendiz explained.
The Texas Demographic Center releases yearly population estimates that differ from those of the U.S. Census Bureau and use a different methodology. It projects population with a mix of national and local data, as well as state surveys on building permits and school enrollment.
“County-level birth and death data were obtained from the Texas Department of State Health Services,” the methodology report reads.
In the last four years, 90 Texas counties have decreased their population, but none of them are in the North Texas area. Dallas County is among the counties with some of the lowest increments from 2020 to 2024, since it gained only 0.6% in this period. This translates to over 16,000 new residents, and the population remains at 2.6 million, with minimal change over the last four years. The metro area of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington now has over 8.1 million residents after crossing the 8 million mark last year.
CLEMSON — Clemson football released its depth chart Monday ahead of its first-round CFP game vs. Texas.
The most notable changes involve the removal of key players who are injured or entered the transfer portal. Backup running back Jay Haynes was removed after suffering a leg injury in the ACC championship against SMU on Dec. 7. Running backs Keith Adams Jr., Jarvis Green and David Eziomume are listed as the No. 2 running back behind Phil Mafah.
Wide receiver Adam Randall also replaced Haynes as the starting kick returner. Clemson’s depth chart removed nickelback Sherrod Covil Jr. and wide receiver Noble Johnson too. Both were backups who entered the transfer portal.
The No. 12 seed Tigers (10-3) will face the No. 5 seed Longhorns (11-2) on Dec. 21 (4 p.m. ET, TNT) in Austin, Texas, at Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. The winner advances to play No. 4 seed Arizona State, the Big 12 champion, in the Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Jan. 1 (1 p.m. ET, ESPN).
Here’s Clemson’s full depth chart before it faces Texas on Saturday:
Clemson football’s offense
QB: Cade Klubnik | Christopher Vizzina
RB: Phil Mafah | Keith Adams Jr. or Jarvis Green or David Eziomume
WR: Antonio Williams | Tyler Brown | Misun Kelley
WR: T.J. Moore | Cole Turner
WR: Bryant Wesco Jr. or Adam Randall | Cole Turner | Hampton Earle
TE: Jake Briningstool | Olsen Patt-Henry | Josh Sapp | Markus Dixon
LT: Tristan Leigh | Mason Wade
LG: Marcus Tate | Harris Sewell
C: Ryan Linthicum | Harris Sewell
RG: Walker Parks | Harris Sewell
RT: Blake Miller | Mason Wade
Clemson football’s defense
DE: Jahiem Lawson | A.J. Hoffler
DT: Payton Page | DeMonte Capehart | Vic Burley
DT: Peter Woods | Tré Williams | Stephiylan Green
DE: T.J. Parker | Cade Denhoff
SLB: Wade Woodaz | Jamal Anderson
MLB: Wade Woodaz | Sammy Brown or Dee Crayton
WLB: Barrett Carter | Sammy Brown or Dee Crayton
CB: Avieon Terrell | Ashton Hampton | Corian Gipson
SS: Kylon Griffin or Tyler Venables | Ricardo Jones
FS: R.J. Mickens | Tyler Venables | Rob Billings
NB: Khalil Barnes | Shelton Lewis
CB: Jeadyn Lukus or Ashton Hampton | Branden Strozier
Clemson football’s special teams
PK: Nolan Hauser | Robert Gunn III
P: Aidan Swanson | Jack Smith
KO: Robert Gunn III
LS (PK): Holden Caspersen
LS (P): Philip Florenzo
H: Clay Swinney
KR: Adam Randall
PR: Antonio Williams
Derrian Carter covers Clemson athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email him at dcarter@gannett.com and follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DerrianCarter00
Texas
Texas AG sues New York doctor who allegedly prescribed abortion pills to woman in Lone Star State
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, has filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor who allegedly prescribed abortion drugs to a woman in the Lone Star State, violating Texas law.
Paxton accused Dr. Margaret Carpenter of mailing pills from New York to a 20-year-old woman in Collin County, Texas, where the woman allegedly took the medication when she was nine weeks pregnant, according to the lawsuit.
When she began experiencing severe bleeding, she asked the baby’s father, who had been unaware she was pregnant, to take her to the hospital.
The filing does not state if the woman successfully terminated her pregnancy or if she experienced any long-term medical complications from taking mifepristone and misoprostol.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas woman, violating laws in the Lone Star State. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Paxton’s lawsuit is the first attempt to test legal protections when it comes to states with conflicting abortion laws since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending federal protection on the matter.
Texas has enacted an abortion ban with few exceptions, while New York protects access to the procedure and has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has been viewed as implicit permission for doctors to mail abortion pills into states with restrictions.
Texas has promised to pursue cases like this regardless of the shield laws, though it is unclear what the courts may decide on this issue, which involves extraterritoriality, interstate commerce and other legal questions. New York’s law allows Carpenter to refuse to comply with Texas’ court orders.
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It is also unknown whether New York courts would side with protecting Texas’ law, which prohibits prescribing abortion-inducing drugs by mail and prohibits treating Texas patients or prescribing medication through telehealth services without a valid Texas medical license.
The woman allegedly took mifepristone and misoprostol when she was nine weeks pregnant. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Texas’ abortion laws prohibit prosecuting a woman for getting an abortion, but do allow for physicians or others who assist a woman in receiving the procedure to be prosecuted.
The lawsuit says Carpenter, the founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, knowingly treated Texas residents despite not being a licensed Texas physician and not being authorized to practice telemedicine in the state. Paxton urged a Collin County court to prohibit Carpenter from violating Texas law and impose civil penalties of at least $100,000 for each violation.
Texas law states that physicians cannot prescribe abortion medication by mail and forbids physicians without a Texas license from providing telehealth services or prescribing medication to patients in the Lone Star State. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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“In this case, an out-of-state doctor violated the law and caused serious harm to this patient,” Paxton said in a statement. “This doctor prescribed abortion-inducing drugs — unauthorized, over telemedicine — causing her patient to end up in the hospital with serious complications. In Texas, we treasure the health and lives of mothers and babies, and this is why out-of-state doctors may not illegally and dangerously prescribe abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents.”
Carpenter also works with AidAccess, an international abortion medication provider, and helped found Hey Jane, a telehealth abortion provider.
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