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Alliance Defending Freedom and its clients are casting this as a free speech and religious freedom issue, but each public school teacher has an obligation to comply with the law and policies of their school district and to respect, protect, and educate all their students.
As part of a settlement agreement in Nicolas Reyes v. Harold Clarke, et al, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) will implement a new language access policy on October 1 in all its facilities.
The ACLU of Virginia sent Virginia school boards and superintendents a letter on Friday to urge them to adopt the Virginia Department of Education's model policy for transgender and non-binary students.
The following statement can be attributed to Mary Bauer, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia:
Our hearts are heavy at the harrowing scenes of Afghan allies and refugees seeking to flee their homeland as the Taliban tightens its grip on the country. Leaving everything they have behind, some 400,000 Afghans have been forced from their homes since the beginning of the year.
The American Civil Liberties Union announced today that the Gloucester County School Board will be ordered to pay over $1.3 million in attorney’s fees and costs requested in Gavin Grimm’s discrimination case.