jurnee identifies as biracial.porter: the school launched an independent investigation and ruled that although the teacher was wrong, the act was well intentioned. the school district denying any racial motivation adding in a statement to abc news, they are confident that the facts will prevail and will aggressively defend against these baseless allegations in court and will not allow this to distract them from their mission to provide every child a world class education that prepares them for college and careers. incidents like the one jurnee's family says she went through are behind a renewed push for the c.r.o.w.n. act. a law aiming to protect against discrimination for race-based hairstyles. >> this is so important for black people with textured hair because our hair is our identity and we call it c.r.o.w.n. because we're trying to create a respectful and open world for all of us. >> reporter: the school district reprimanded the employee who cut jurnee's hair as well as two others were aware but didn't report i