MICHAEL HEWLETT
Lee Newspapers
Seventeen former high school students at UNC School of the Arts joined a lawsuit Dec. 29, 2021 alleging that school administrators ignored and condoned a rampant culture in which faculty members sexually abused and assaulted hundreds of high school students from the late 1960s through at least 2012.
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