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...The Associated Press reports on Newser.com that officials in a Connecticut school district have backed down in a fight over free speech rights, when it decided to permit a student to wear a T-shirt bearing an anti-gay message.
Continue reading...Florida’s television affiliate, NBC-2, reports that Amber Hatcher, a student at DeSoto High School, has filed suit in federal court against DeSoto County School District.
Continue reading...The Penobscot County Superior Court has ruled that Riverside RSU 26, formerly Orono School District, did not violate a transgender student’s rights under the Maine Human Rights Act when school officials prohibited the student from using the girls’ restroom at school. It also rejected the student’s claims of discrimination under the MHRA based on deliberated indifference to student-on-student harassment or harassment by school officials.
Continue reading...The Standard-Examiner reports that the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah has filed suit in federal court against Davis School District for removing a children’s book about a family with same-sex parents from its library shelves.
Continue reading...KMSP-TV Fox 9 reports that Anoka-Hennepin School District and police are investigating a group of middle school students who took a fight to Facebook and began a bout of cyber-bullying that crossed a scary line. Officials say at least one of the bullies made a post on Facebook urging a group of girls to go kill themselves.
Continue reading...According to UnionLeader.com, the Nashua School District has entered into a settlement agreement with the family of a transgender student suing for discrimination.
Continue reading...According to the Bangor Daily News, Penobscot County Superior Court Justice William Anderson has heard oral arguments in a discrimination suit brought by the parents of a transgender student over the local school district’s handling of their transgender child’s transition from male to female.
Continue reading...According to the Associated Press in The Miami Herald, Marion County school officials have entered into a consent decree that will allow the formation of a club of the Gay-Straight Alliance designed to promote understanding among gay and straight students at Vanguard High School.
Continue reading...Ocala.com reports that the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida has filed suit against the Marion County School Board and Superintendent Jim Yancey, alleging officials at Vanguard High School rejected a proposal by two students to start a Gay-Straight Alliance at the school.
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