SOUTHWICK — A Superior Court judge approved in early October a financial settlement between the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School District and an attorney representing a Southwick Regional School student and her mother, who had alleged the district was negligent in its response to the Black student being racially harassed in 2023 and 2024, according to court records.

“The parties negotiated at arm’s length over several months and have agreed to a settlement of all claims by the Plaintiffs for the sum of $50,000 to be paid by the Defendant,” according to a joint petition filed in October in Hampden County Superior Court.

The settlement agreement was reached between the district and Boston-based Lawyers for Civil Rights on behalf of Allyson Lopez and her daughter, who was raciall

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