After the suicide of a nonbinary student last February spurred a monthslong federal investigation, the US Department of Education found Title IX violations in an Oklahoma public school district including multiple failures to respond to notices of sexual harassment.

Nine months after the death of Owasso student Nex Benedict, the U.S. Department of Education has reached a resolution in their Owasso Public Schools investigation.

Owasso Public Schools in Oklahoma agrees to a plan to address Title IX violations after an investigation found inadequate handling of sexual harassment reports, including failures to inform students of their rights.

The Human Rights Campaign praised the U.S. Department of Education's findings against Owasso Public Schools for systemic Title IX violations linked to student harassment and mental health issues.

The Department of Education announced that Oklahoma's Owasso Public Schools has agreed to “remedy violations of Title IX” following LGBTQ+ student Nex Benedict's death.

The agreement was prompted by a complaint initially filed by the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, in response to the Feb. 8 death of Owasso sophomore Nex Benedict.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that Owasso Public Schools has entered into an agreement to remedy Title IX violations in relation to sexual harassment reports in its schools.

U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that Owasso Public Schools entered an agreement for violations of Title IX involving sexual har