Millbury Memorial Junior/Senior High School will pay the family an undisclosed amount and agreed to revamp its policies on addressing discriminatory-based harassment in the school, according to Lawyers for Civil Rights, the Boston legal nonprofit that represented the family of students Melody and Kamora Dabney.

Six months after a girls’ high school basketball team in Worcester faced a wave of online racist attacks, schools are collaborating with the Worcester NAACP and YWCA of Central Massachusetts in a Stand Against Racism campaign.

A state government initiative started four years ago specifically to prevent hate and bias in athletics, called Addressing Hate in School Sports. Yet reports of such incidents remain common across the booming school sports landscape.

A father and son filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday claiming the boy — who is Black — was being "racially tormented" by classmates at Nauset Regional Middle School in Orleans, leading to his attempted suicide.

The new statewide poll points to a consistent pattern of inequity around school safety, bullying, mental health, discrimination and regular attendance.

Attorney General Andrea Campbell allies with parents who say the state needs to bolster its efforts to protect school children from bullying – especially after the federal government gutted civil rights protections for schoolchildren.

Report by Northeastern School of Law finds school districts, and state regulators, failing to follow requirements of 2010 state law meant to protect students.

”Basically, the referee has left the field,“ said Maura Sullivan, CEO of The Arc of Massachusetts, a nonprofit advocating for people with autism and intellectual disabilities.

Students want the district to beef up teacher training and improve how staff respond allegations, including clearer standards for reporting.