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The family of a Muslim boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Texas school officials and others, saying the incident violated the 14-year-old boy's civil rights, prompted death threats and forced them to leave the United States. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested at his suburban Dallas high school in September and charged with having a hoax bomb.
Student Gavin Grimm, who was barred from using the boys' bathroom at his local high school in Gloucester County, Virginia, is seen in an undated photo. Grimm was born a female but identifies as a male.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 3, 2016 CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Alice Chao, FRC-NEWS or -372-6397 U.S. Supreme Court's Hold on School Bathroom Ruling Is Encouraging News for Schools Resisting Obama's Bathroom Edict WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court put a hold on a court ruling that forced a Virginia school district to open a boy's bathroom to a biological girl who identifies as transgendered. Earlier this year, the Obama administration sent guidance to schools throughout the country directing school administrators to allow self-identified "transgender" students to use the restrooms and changing rooms of the student's choosing.
In the coming weeks and months, we will all be inundated with polls, pundits and speeches telling us one presidential candidate is going to win in November. Be it Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump - no third-party candidate will make even a marginal ripple in the presidential pool party this year - we will have a new president after the polls close on Nov. 8. What does that mean? It means that the decisions of your local school board have a greater affect on you that anything in Washington, D.C. Just look at it this way: school districts around here pass multi-million budgets wherein they spend whatever moneys they have to educate area children.
A general view of the White House in Washington in this September 30, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/Files This week I attended what will likely be the last major event President Obama hosts at the White House for the American Muslim community - an Eid celebration to mark the end of the month of Ramadan.
The Gloucester County School Board is turning to the U.S. Supreme Court as it seeks a stay an injunction allowing a transgender student to use the boys restroom next school year.
Pittsburgh has a long tradition of community involvement in the public schools. Our new superintendent, Anthony Hamlet, will get lots of advice as he starts his job.
Under union pressure, Los Angeles Unified has gutted teacher evaluation , writes Thomas Toch, founding director of the Center on the Future of American Education at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, in Education Post . That will hurt students - and teachers - he argues.
Obama's transgender proclamation is just the latest in a long line of 'guidance' letters issued to establish direct presidential control of state governments. or going on eight years America has been witness to a president unmoored to the constitution.
The Illinois House passed a temporary budget compromise Thursday that will ensure schools open this fall and state services continue through the end of the year. The bills now await approval from the Senate and the governor.
CHICAGO – Gov. Bruce Rauner and majority Democrats were pushing competing plans to ensure schools stay open and government operations continue, though there were signs late Tuesday that the two sides could reach a deal on stopgap spending as Illinois approaches a second year without a full state budget. Legislative leaders left a nearly three-hour meeting with the Republican governor saying they had made progress and would meet again Wednesday morning.
State Rep. Dan Hawkins, R-Wichita, along with the Kansas House Appropriations Committee, looks over their new school finance plan. Friday June 24, 2016, at the statehouse in Topeka, Kan.
Top Republicans were forced Friday to rewrite an education funding plan in hopes of pushing it through the Kansas Legislature, satisfying a court mandate and ending a looming threat that public schools across the state may shut down.
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
The Kansas State Board of Education plans to discuss and take possible action on the Obama administration's directive that public schools allow transgender students to use restrooms that match their gender identity.
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Denali Borough School District Superintendent Dan Polta and students Victoria Saxe and Halle Venehuck are happy to accept a $20,000 donation to the school district from Holland America Lines.
A $617 million state bailout of Detroit's debt-ridden school district is advancing in the Michigan Legislature after winning narrow approval in the House. The ailing district has been managed by the state for seven years, during which it has faced plummeting enrollment and, more recently, teacher sickout protests.
The state's top education official predicted Friday the Legislature and governor will resolve an impasse with the Supreme Court over education funding ahead of a deadline that could result in the closure of schools. Still, Education Commissioner Randy Watson told educators the Kansas State Department of Education will work to provide information to school districts and he acknowledged the fear among teachers and administrators.