The Tallapoosa County Board of Education announced at Monday night’s meeting that an investigation launched by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) into alleged discrimination against African-American students by shuttering Edward Bell High School in Camp Hill has been closed, with no further action needing to be taken by the school system.

In 2011, the group Citizens for Better Schools and Sustainable Communities sent a letter to Washington asking for an investigation into the Tallapoosa County School system for potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This letter claimed that the school closure was passed in order to try and re-segregate the county school system, keeping African-American students from Edward Bell from having the same opportunities as other students elsewhere in the system and refusing to hire African-Americans into teaching and administration positions.

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