According an Associated Press report on NECN.com, the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia plans to file suit against Wood County Schools over separate classes for boys and girls in core subjects at Van Devender Middle School.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has denied a school district’s motion to dismiss a parent’s suit on behalf of her daughter challenging the school’s single-sex classroom program on the basis of Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause on the grounds the parent lacks standing to bring the suit or the claims are moot. The panel remanded the case to the federal district court to determine if the student has a personal stake in resolution of the request for injunctive relief applicable to future class years until the issues on the merits are resolved.
Continue reading...The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in its challenge of single-gender classes at a Louisiana middle school, says 2TheAdvocate. In April, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Haik denied the ACLU’s motion to stop single-sex classes at Rene Rost Middle School and set up a plan for the school to continue the classes in August. DOJ filed a “friend of the court” brief in support of the ACLU’s appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The ACLU’s lawsuit claimed that the classes violated students’ rights to an equal education, Title IX and other federal regulations. The Justice Department brief supports ACLU’s claims that the single-sex education classes failed to meet federal regulations governing the implementation of single-sex classes.
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