A leading Latino legal civil rights organization is suing the ABC Unified School District in California claiming the district is illegally diluting the voting clout of Latinos and barring them from elective office by using an at-large electoral system for school board races.
Continue reading...The Maine Principals’ Association has approved a policy that will permit transgender high school students in Maine to play for sports teams that match their gender identity.
Continue reading...The Chambersburg Area School District’s school board has voted 5-4 to reverse its decision and provide the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) with the same rights and privileges as any other noncurricular club at the school.
Continue reading...As reported on Fox43.com, following a 5-4 vote by the local school board to refuse to recognize a Gay-Straight Alliance club at Chambersburg Area Senior High School, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and Equality Pennsylvania sent a letter to the Chambersburg Area School District officials saying the Board is in violation of the federal Equal Access Act.
Continue reading...Education Week reports that a major provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that affects hundreds of school districts, especially in the South, recently went before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Continue reading...As reported on CNN.com, a transgender rights group has filed a discrimination complaint in Colorado on behalf of a first-grader who was born a boy but identifies as a girl.
Continue reading...According to the Lebanon Daily News, the Lebanon school board unanimously agreed to settle a lawsuit involving the district’s truancy policy and accusations that it excessively fined parents of minority students with multiple unexcused absences.
Continue reading...A Bergen County Superior Court has ruled that a school district had not failed to provide disabled students receiving special education services with reasonable accommodations in violation of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination when the district assigned those students to one school, rather than assigning each to their neighborhood school.
Continue reading...According to reports from The Republic, a former English-language learner specialist, who is an African from Cameroon, has filed suit against Gilbert Public Schools alleging discrimination on the basis of race and national origin.
Continue reading...The Patriot News reports that the Child Evangelism Fellowship of Dauphin County Inc. has filed suit in federal court against the Harrisburg School District, alleging that HSD’s demand for CEF to pay an annual rental fee of $1,200 to hold a Bible-based after-school program is not only excessive, but discriminatory.
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