Oklahoma’s hostile political climate, and what advocates call the school’s failure to protect him. GLSEN’s executive director Melanie Willingham-Jaggers called the Department of Education’s determination a “moment of reckoning” for schools that ...

The Department of Education announced Wednesday that the Owasso school district in Oklahoma violated Title IX due to sexual harassment in its schools, a finding that comes months after the death of Nex Benedict.

Owasso Public Schools, the district where Nex Benedict died following a fight at school, violated federal law, according to the Education Department.

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.