Can a teacher sue a school for permitting sexual harassment by students?

Until recently I was a new teacher at a MA school. I reported to my supervisors repeatedly throughout the year about daily offensive conduct by students in one all-male class (examples: multiple students chanting quif, dyke, bush, rape, and other such terms; responding to individual questions on class material with obscenities; suggesting in class that I engage in sexual behaviors for them; and so on.) The administrators at that school would not remove even the worst-behaving students from the school or even from my course, or have those students take my course online, although the school offers my subject as an online course. Any student I sent out for behavior, no matter how bad, knew he would be back in class the next day. To call the atmosphere this created poisonous is an understatement; I had trouble forcing myself to go to work in the mornings. The principal, the assistant principal in charge of discipline, my immediate supervisor, and the other teachers all knew about the harassment, and I have written documentation of much of it. At the end of the year, the principal overrode my supervisor's recommendation and let me go, officially without any explanation. I expect to have trouble finding another job as a result. Have I any recourse? Thank you.