SAN DIEGO – The State of California has released the official graduation rate data for the Class of 2016, and San Diego Unified ranked first among the top 5 largest districts – ahead of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Long Beach and Fresno. The state put the final graduation rate number for San Diego Unified at…
WASHINGTON – With increased urgency to stop bullying in America’s schools, educators are working diligently to get to the root of the problem in early grades. This week, The HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools Program is recognizing ten schools and two school districts that have gone the extra mile to create safe schools. Welcoming Schools provides…
Media Matters for America reports how, during discussions with Equality Matters, officials from a number of California’s largest school districts pushed back against right-wing misinformation about a new state law guaranteeing transgender students access to proper facilities and programs. Evidence continues to mount that a new California law allowing transgender public school students to use the restroom facilities…
Local school boards and communities this week continued their progress towards implementing the School Success and Opportunity Act, which Governor Brown signed earlier this year. The new law, AB1266, restates existing anti-discrimination law to ensure that all students, including transgender students, have the opportunity to fully participate and succeed in schools. Kane Tajnai, a student…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has demanded that the La Feria Independent School District allow Jeydon Loredo, a transgender student and senior at La Feria High School, to appear in his high school yearbook wearing a tuxedo or risk a federal lawsuit against the Texas school district. The demand was made…
