Iowa district to pay $150,000 in settlement with teachers disciplined after student drag show
Three Ankeny teachers who sued over discipline tied to a 2022 student drag performance will share the settlement, along with money for their lawyers.
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Three Ankeny teachers who sued over discipline tied to a 2022 student drag performance will share the settlement, along with money for their lawyers.
A group of Redwood High School seniors in California’s Central Valley arranged themselves to spell an anti-LGBTQ slur during a school assembly and photo session, prompting swift condemnation from school officials and a response from a local LGBTQ center.
Court filings say Little Miami officials had no prior complaints about the classroom display before board president David Wallace raised it, and that the named complainant was Silas Shelton, a former pastor sentenced to 15 years in prison for sex crimes involving a minor.
Writers who promote books about same-sex families and queer characters say some schools pulled events or limited what they could discuss.
John Berenato, a former superintendent in Manchester Township, said he was targeted because he is gay. The district no longer has to reinstate him after a separate state ruling and a later settlement.
At an Education and Workforce Committee hearing, GOP lawmakers repeatedly fixated on “pregnant people,” drawing pushback from a UCSF dean and renewed scrutiny of anti-trans rhetoric.
A Boise High School student’s mother says the claim was false, while a separate lawsuit now seeks damages and has revived debate over Idaho’s stalled restroom law.
The Comraine District Library Board shifted more than 100 titles out of the children’s section after months of review and a policy change shaped with Alliance Defending Freedom.
Peter Harris said Essex County Council is still clarifying guidance for its 74 libraries after Pride Month displays continued in some branches.
The case centers on Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ policy allowing students to be addressed by names and pronouns that match their gender identity.
Updated safeguarding rules from the Department for Education take effect on 1 September and set out restrictions for toilets, changing rooms and overnight stays.
A 2012 paper by sociologist Mark Regnerus is back in circulation as opponents of Obergefell v. Hodges seek to cast doubt on same-gender parenting.
Separate Fairfax County trials found a political action committee and its founder liable over social media posts that plaintiffs said falsely linked them to child abuse claims.
The LGBTQ+ group is expanding its policy, litigation, communications and state operations with hires tied to the Obama, Harris and Lambda Legal worlds.