EUGENE - The Eugene School District will pay $10,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a boy who was attacked by a group of students on a school bus.

The district also promised to continue policies and programs aimed at preventing bullying and harassment.

The middle school boy, Casey Woodruff, will get all of the money, according to terms of the settlement.

"He is the victim," said Roger Woodruff, Casey's father.

The beating received by Woodruff in October 2002 gained national attention when footage from a camera on the bus aired on "Good Morning America."

The lawsuit claimed that Casey was bullied regularly beginning in 2001, when he was in elementary school. It said his parents reported the violence and named the attackers, but the district failed to prevent continuing assaults leading up to the bus attack.

The district has maintained that, while Casey was indeed harassed, district officials took appropriate steps to make school safe. The settlement language makes it clear that the district owns up to no liability for any of the Woodruffs' claims.

District spokesman Kelly McIver said the settlement was prudent because it would have cost the district more money to prepare for trial.

The district has provided anti-harassment training to 85 percent of all its elementary and middle school staff and students, and has committed to 100 percent by June 2005, McIver said.

Moreover, bus drivers also will receive training, something the district had planned to do before the incident, McIver said.