Larry O’Dell reports: A policy barring a transgender student from using the boys’ restrooms at his Virginia high school is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In a case closely watched by public schools and transgender-rights activists across the country, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the Gloucester County School…
Category: Youth & Schools
Student data protection bill passes Colorado House
James Anderson reports: Colorado lawmakers are moving to enact what is billed as one of nation’s toughest student privacy laws at a time when unscrupulous data collectors can identify youths by their keystrokes in typing class and sell their information. […] The House on Thursday unanimously backed a bill that defines at what point data…
Does ICE Pressure Schools for Student Info?
Emily von Hoffman reports on concerns parents have that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be contacting schools, even though ICE continues to deny any involvement: Legally, federal law prevents schools from sharing student information, including their citizenship status, and ICE states that it does not interface with schools at all. In fact, several existing laws make…
Anchorage man charged after posting ‘intimate’ video of girl online
Jerzy Shedlock reports: An 18-year-old Anchorage man has been charged with a felony after police say he sent hundreds of threatening text messages to a girl and posted an “intimate” video of her on social media. Holden Braund-Nuss was arrested at his South Anchorage home Thursday and charged with harassment and coercion, police said. He…