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RICHMOND, Va. (July 28, 2021) – In a win for Virginia schools and students, a Lynchburg court dismissed a challenge against the Virginia Department of Education’s model policies for the treatment of transgender students on Tuesday.
The Virginia Coalition on Solitary Confinement sent Governor Ralph Northam a letter on Tuesday urging him to end solitary confinement in Virginia's prison systems.
Solitary confinement by any other name is still solitary confinement
The following statement can be attributed to Executive Director Mary Bauer:
The Supreme Court today declined to hear Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, allowing lower court decisions in support of transgender students to stand.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia announced today that it has hired Mary Bauer to succeed Executive Director Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, who announced her retirement in October 2020 after nine years with the organization.