HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy from the Philadelphia area and his mother will receive $700,000 from the settlement of an AIDS discrimination lawsuit against a private boarding school that refused to enroll him because he is HIV-positive.
The settlement was announced Wednesday by the AIDS Law Project of Philadelphia and the Milton Hershey School.
The school also must pay $15,000 in civil penalties and provide HIV training for students and staff members.
The school refused to enroll the boy, an honor roll student, on grounds that he would be a threat to other students' health and safety.
The AIDS Law Project sued the school in federal court last year. In August, the school reversed its policy announced it would treat applicants with HIV the same as others.
