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A Utah school district agrees to pay $62,500 after a biracial boy was dragged by a bus

Davis School District in northern Utah has agreed to pay $62,500 to settle a lawsuit over a biracial student who was shut in the doors of a bus and left dangling outside as it drove forward.

The prominent civil rights case — which drew national attention and which the boy’s family called “racial assault” — will now end quietly as soon as a judge signs the proposal submitted to the court Tuesday.

“I think it’s horrendous what Davis School District did,” said Robert Sykes, the attorney who represented the boy. “I hope they learned a lesson.