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Fla. education chief rejects claim that testing firm is working to turn kids gay
MILTON, Fla. — Florida’s education commissioner on Tuesday rejected an assertion by a state lawmaker that a standardized testing organization aims to make public school students homosexual.
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Fla. lawmaker: New educational standards are designed to turn all school children gay
A Florida Republican state lawmaker says new “common core” educational standards are designed to turn all school children gay.
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More schools working to help transgender students feel acceptance
Isaac Barnett took a bold step last year: He told teachers and classmates at his Kansas high school that the student they had known as a girl now wanted to be accepted as a boy. His close childhood friend, who also identified as transgender, was ready to reveal his secret, too.
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Portrait of girl in tuxedo omitted from Catholic school’s yearbook
SAN FRANCISCO — A Catholic high school in San Francisco came under fire on Friday for refusing to include a portrait of a female student wearing a tuxedo in the school yearbook.
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Transgender Austrians to get new school transcripts
VIENNA — Austria’s education minister has instructed schools to re-issue grade transcripts to transgender persons who have requested that they be identified by another sex.
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Fla. student denied in-state tuition, seeks recognition of his same-sex marriage
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida college student is asking an appellate court to recognize his same-sex marriage after he says he was denied in-state tuition.
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Ill. student leads dorm with goal of gender and diversity inclusion
As the son of a special-education teacher and an Illinois State Police officer Brandon Rohlwing says he tried to come across as just another typical suburban sports-loving, heterosexual boy during his middle-school years in West Dundee, Ill., but “some students saw through that and saw the real me,” he says.
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Dept. of Ed: Title IX prohibits discrimination against transgender students
WASHINGTON — The U.S Department of Education on Tuesday issued guidance clarifying that Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in schools that receive federal funding, prohibits discrimination against transgender students.
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Proposed cuts to S.C. colleges over ‘gay books’ face opposition in Senate
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A state House budget proposal to cut $70,000 from two South Carolina universities for assigning gay-themed books to freshmen might not get much of a reception in the Senate.
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School review committee votes against censoring book ‘Two Boys Kissing’
WARRENTON, Va. — A Virginia high school review committee has voted not to censor a contested book from the school’s library that depicts two boys kissing on its cover.