Tag: school boards
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LETTERS: Legal pressure; a larger end game
Legal pressure drove decision The recent vote by the District 49 board to repeal its facilities policy is being described as a change of heart, but the reporting suggests something else was at work: legal pressure. Several board members cited civil-rights law and potential litigation in explaining their votes, even though no lawsuit had been…
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COLUMN: The school board member of every child’s dream
If you’re registered to vote, you’ve received a ballot in the mail for the upcoming election on November 4th. Being an “off year” between the presidential and midterm contests, we haven’t been bombarded with as many campaign advertisements as last year – but the races and initiatives are nevertheless important. Across Colorado, voters will be…
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Lawsuits ask courts to overturn Virginia’s new policies on the treatment of transgender students
The ACLU of Virginia is suing the state Department of Education to challenge Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s policies on the treatment of transgender students
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Utah governor says school board member who questioned a student’s gender ‘embarrassed the state’
Utah’s Republican governor and other state officials are calling out a conservative state school board member for insinuating in an online post that a member of a girl’s high school basketball team was transgender, when in fact she is not