The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into Burlington Public Schools after the district allegedly failed to comply with parents’ requests to opt their children out of a survey asking about sensitive topics, the DOE announced Monday .

The survey , administered to students at Marshall Simonds Middle School and Burlington High School in March, included questions about drug and alcohol use, sexual encounters, and gender identity.

The DOE’s Student Privacy Policy Office is investigating whether BPS violated parents’ rights under the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment , which allows parents to withdraw their children from questionnaires asking about “sensitive, private information,” the department said in a release.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon call

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