St. Cloud Superintendent Bruce Watkins said all but the final details of the agreement had been reached with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. The deal up for board approval Thursday night requires that the district make its schools more welcoming to Somalis; it finds that the district broke no federal rules in handling previous incidents, Watkins said.
If the deal is approved, it would end an investigation that began more than a year ago. In March 2010, the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations requested a federal investigation into alleged harassment of Muslim students at two St. Cloud high schools during the 2009-2010 school year.
