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The Supreme Court on Friday said it will decide whether the Obama administration may require public school systems to let transgender students use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, putting the court again at the center of a divisive social issue. School districts across the country are split on how to accommodate transgender students in the face of conflicting guidance from courts, the federal government and, in some cases, state legislatures that have passed laws requiring people to use public restrooms that coincide with the sex on their birth certificates.
The landscape of transgender law impacting students is quickly evolving, in large part due to the increasing national debate over restroom access for transgender students. By way of background, under Title IX, schools receiving federal money may not discriminate based on a student's sex.
A surrogate for Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump told a group of urban school superintendents on Friday that Trump would seek to do away with "corrupted, incompetent" public school systems in America's cities, replacing them with charter schools and vouchers for private schools. Such an approach would "encourage competition in the marketplace and eventually dismantle the corrupted, incompetent urban school districts that we have in America today," said Carl Paladino, Trump's New York State co-chairman, drawing audible boos from an audience composed largely of people who run the school districts Paladino criticized.
A federal magistrate judge recommended this week that a transgender girl at the center of a lawsuit over restroom and locker room access be able to use the girls' locker room at her Illinois high school, writing that the Constitution doesn't protect students against having to share such facilities with their transgender peers. In an 82-page report, Magistrate Judge Jeffrey T. Gilbert sided against a group of students and parents who sought a preliminary injunction to force the girl to use the boys' locker room or a private bathroom while the court moves forward with the case.
As Halloween approaches, many people are out looking to buy pumpkins. Now, students at Lane Public School are making that a little easier for their Oklahoma community this year.
Such was the case Thursday night, when a host of the city's top political, cultural and educational leaders celebrated a key milestone in the life of the Tsongas Industrial History Center, which grew out of the Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell School Department and UMass Lowell "partnership" 25 years ago. Reminiscing at the anniversary event, City Councilor William Samaras paid tribute to two men in launching the center: the late U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas and the late school Superintendent Patrick Mogan.
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Relieved parents dropped their children off at Chicago schools on Tuesday morning after the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district averted a strike with a late-night tentative contract agreement. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said at a news conference late Monday that after more than a year of negotiations, the two sides had hammered out an agreement that isn't perfect but is good for students, teachers and the city.
With helicopters overseeing the rescue operation from above, volunteer firefighters turned their military-surplus truck with 4-foot tires into the dark flood waters to cruise past a mortuary, grocery and homes in... With helicopters overseeing the rescue operation from above, volunteer firefighters turned their military-surplus truck with 4-foot tires into the dark flood waters, cruising past a mortuary, grocery and homes in part of... Students and teachers in Chicago were heading back to the classroom after the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district averted a threatened strike with a tentative contract... Students and teachers in Chicago are heading back to the classroom Tuesday after the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district averted a strike with a tentative contract agreement reached... Donald Trump's candidacy has long ... (more)
With helicopters overseeing the rescue operation from above, volunteer firefighters turned their military-surplus truck with 4-foot tires into the dark flood waters to cruise past a mortuary, grocery and homes in... With helicopters overseeing the rescue operation from above, volunteer firefighters turned their military-surplus truck with 4-foot tires into the dark flood waters, cruising past a mortuary, grocery and homes in part of... Students and teachers in Chicago were heading back to the classroom after the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district averted a threatened strike with a tentative contract... Students and teachers in Chicago are heading back to the classroom Tuesday after the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district averted a strike with a tentative contract agreement reached... Donald Trump's candidacy has long ... (more)
Iain Jones second from right, holds a sign as his brother Quin Jones and mother Jennifer Jones join other families at a press conference to show support for the Chicago Public School teachers held in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood near Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Negotiators for the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools were meeting again Monday in a bid to avert a threatened teachers' strike.
Chicago teachers and the nation's third-largest school district struck a tentative deal on a new contract late Monday, averting what would have been the second major strike since 2012 for Chicago Public Schools just hours before union members were set to hit the picket lines. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said at a news conference just before midnight Tuesday that after more than a year of negotiations, the two sides had hammered out an agreement that isn't perfect but is good for students, teachers and the city.
Students and teachers in Chicago are heading back to the classroom after the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district averted a strike with a late-night tentative contract agreement. The union had been prepared to hit the picket lines Tuesday morning for what would have been the second major Chicago Public Schools strike since 2012.
California authorities say the former owners of the Village Voice in New York have been arrested days after they were charged with sex trafficking through their control of an online site that advertises escort... California authorities say the former owners of the Village Voice in New York City have been arrested days after they were charged with sex trafficking through their control of an online site that advertises escort services. A black bear attacked and injured a 53-year-old man Monday in the San Gabriel Mountains east of Los Angeles, authorities said.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't yet authorize construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline on federal land in southern North Dakota, it said Monday, along with reiterating its... The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't yet authorize construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline on federal land in southern North Dakota, it said Monday, along with reiterating its earlier... California authorities say the former owners of the Village Voice in New York have been arrested days after they were charged with sex trafficking through their control of an online site that advertises escort... California authorities say the former owners of the Village Voice in New York City have been arrested days after they were charged with sex trafficking through their control of an online site that advertises escort services.
CTU members, students and supporters listen to speakers as they participate in a "walk-in" at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep in Chicago on Oct. 6, 2016. CTU members, students and supporters listen to speakers as they participate in a "walk-in" at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep in Chicago on Oct. 6, 2016.
Most of the attention this fall has properly gone to the fierce presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Some voters have also given substantial attention to many of the propositions on next month's ballot, covering everything from plastic bags to condoms in pornography, from taxes to legalized marijuana.