COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: Parents group and Iowa school district settle gender policy suit
The parents claimed the school district policy violated the First Amendment rights of students who do not “respect” another student’s gender identity.
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NATIONAL REVIEW: Iowa School District Agrees to Stop Punishing Students for ‘Misgendering’ as Part of Lawsuit Settlement
An Iowa school district has agreed, as part of a lawsuit settlement, to rescind its punitive pronoun policy that prohibited an “intentional and/or persistent refusal by staff or students to…
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NATIONAL REVIEW: Iowa District No Longer Able to Punish Students for ‘Misgendering’ Classmates
Parents Defending Education (PDE) settled its case with Linn-Mar Community Schools in Iowa yesterday. The district agreed to rescind a policy that prohibited an “intentional and/or persistent refusal by staff…
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THE GAZETTE: Outgoing Linn-Mar school board members have combined 97 years with the district
An organization called Parents Defending Education filed a lawsuit against the school district, alleging that the policy violated students’ right to free speech. And earlier this year, the Iowa Legislature…
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THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: “Woke” Iowa School Board Disrespects Parents, Students and the First Amendment
If you want to see how the nutty, biology-defying gender ideology of the radical left has infected school boards and administrators even in conservative, saner parts of the country, you…
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MRCTV: Court Blocks School District Policy Forcing Pronoun ‘Respect’
A St. Louis federal appeals court halted Iowa’s Linn-Mar Community School District policy that would force students to comply with others’ transgender delusions.
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THE GAZETTE: Parents vs. Linn-Mar: This round goes to the parents
Call it a victory, because it is.
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THE OHIO STAR: Schools Cannot Ban ‘Merely Offensive’ Speech on Gender Identity, Appeals Court Rules
Fifty-six years after it exempted antiwar teenagers from First Amendment protections while on campus, a federal appeals court in America’s heartland affirmed students’ speech rights in public schools on an…
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CATHOLIC VOTE: 8th Circuit Rules in Favor of Parental Rights
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that students and parents in an Iowa school district are not required to follow a district policy that excluded parental authority…
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