Education

AUSTIN -- The Texas state House of Representatives on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill to allow student organizations at any of the state’s public universities to discriminate in their membership practices. [ Read more → ]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Transgender students would have the right to use public school restrooms and participate on sports teams that correspond with their expressed genders under a bill approved Thursday in the California Assembly. [ Read more → ]

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A popular Columbus, Ohio, physical education teacher and coach who says she was fired because she is gay, has filed a grievance through her union against the Catholic Diocese of Columbus, according to her attorney. [ Read more → ]

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Students at Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, Ohio, are fighting for a longtime physical education teacher and coach they say was been fired by the Catholic Diocese of Columbus because she’s gay. [ Read more → ]

LONDON -- Britain's high court has upheld a teaching ban on a Christian educator who told pupils lifestyle of gay people was "disgusting and a sin." [ Read more → ]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Some gay students who face financial trouble, often because of rejection from their families, are getting help from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. [ Read more → ]

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The North Carolina General Assembly on Wednesday confirmed six appointments to the state Board of Education, despite an objection raised by Democrats who said one nominee had offended gays with a vote on a bullying measure. [ Read more → ]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee House of Representatives on Monday passed a bill that would prohibit public universities and colleges from implementing non-discrimination policies for student groups. [ Read more → ]

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) on Thursday re-introduced The Safe Schools Improvement Act in the U.S. House, a bill to help ensure a safe learning environment at schools nationwide and provide necessary resources to prevent school bullying and reduce the rising drop-out rate. [ Read more → ]

NASHVILLE, Tenn -- Another new version of Tennessee's Classroom Protection Act, more commonly known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, would require teachers to send gay students to see a psychiatrist. [ Read more → ]

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -- The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening legal action against a central Pennsylvania school board that denied students' request to form a club that would bring together gay and straight students. [ Read more → ]

Pepperdine University has announced a new scholarship for “students who have demonstrated a commitment to the LGBT community,” according to the university’s student newspaper, the Pepperdine Graphic. [ Read more → ]

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A transgender woman has filed a lawsuit after she was expelled from a Christian university after she revealed in an episode of MTV’s “True Life” that she is biologically male. [ Read more → ]

A pair of Republican Texas lawmakers have introduced two pieces of anti-gay legislation, one which would cut funding for schools and universities that have policies in place that support LGBT students, faculty, or staff, and another measure that would allow discrimination based on religious beliefs. [ Read more → ]

FARMERSBURG, Ind. — An Indiana high school teacher whose comment that she believes gays have no purpose in life has been suspended amid tighter security at her school. [ Read more → ]

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Education on Friday issued directives for handling transgender students, including allowing them to use the bathrooms or play on the sports teams that correspond to the gender with which they identify. [ Read more → ]

HYMERA, Ind. -- An Indiana school district said Tuesday that a special education teacher who said that gays have no purpose and that LGBT teens were "offensive," was simply "expressing her First Amendment rights." [ Read more → ]

RICHMOND, Va. -- A Virginia House measure that would allow student clubs at Virginia's public colleges and universities to discriminate in their policies and membership was passed the state Senate Monday on a 21-18 vote. [ Read more → ]

During a dedication ceremony Monday of the Tyler Clementi Center at Rutgers University in New Jersey, U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, (D-N.J.) announced that he U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) have reintroduced legislation in Congress that would require colleges to implement anti-harassment policies. [ Read more → ]

The Lauderdale County Board of Education in Florence, Ala. has decreed that Queer students, racial minority students, overweight students, or any students that do not meet the standards of normalcy of the local community are worth precisely “2 weeks suspension without pay.” For the average teacher in Alabama this comes to roughly $2,655. [ Read more → ]