Cincinnati Public Schools make changes on bullying after Gabriel Taye's death

The region’s largest public school system has made major changes to how it deals with bullying over the past year. Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Laura Mitchell can rattle them off: There's now a button on the district's website, front and center, to report bullying. Teachers and staff get more intensive training. The district hired a social worker with a background in stress management. All those came after Gabriel Taye took his own life in January 2017. The 8-year-old was a student at Carson Elementary in West Price Hill. On his final day at school, he spent seven minutes unconscious on a bathroom floor, and surveillance footage shows other students appearing to kick him as he lay helpless. Not one of the district's top leaders has said much about the case. Mitchell took over as superintendent in July, a month before Gabriel's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit. In a lengthy interview with the I-Team last month, she made her first public comments about Gabriel, but she stopped short of saying his death influenced the changes CPS has made. To Jennifer Branch, an attorney for Gabriel’s family, those changes aren't enough. She argues there's another problem: The district lacks transparency. Without it, Branch thinks parents still won’t be able to hold CPS accountable.