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| The U.S. Education Department's civil rights enforcement arm has launched an investigation into a North Texas school district |
| 2022-12-21 |
| [NBCnews] Education and legal experts say the federal probe of the Granbury Independent School District — which stemmed from a complaint by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and reporting by NBC News, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune — appears to be the first such investigation explicitly tied to the nationwide movement to ban school library books dealing with sexuality and gender. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights notified Granbury school officials on Dec. 6 that it had opened the investigation following a July complaint by the ACLU, which accused the district of violating a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender. The ACLU complaint was based largely on an investigation published in March by NBC News, ProPublica and the Tribune that revealed that Granbury’s superintendent, Jeremy Glenn, instructed librarians to remove books dealing with sexual orientation and people who are transgender. "I acknowledge that there are men that think they’re women and there are women that think they’re men," Glenn told librarians in January, according to a leaked recording of the meeting obtained, verified and published exclusively by the news outlets. "I don’t have any issues with what people want to believe, but there’s no place for it in our libraries." Later in the meeting, Glenn clarified that he was specifically focused on removing books geared toward queer students: "It’s the transgender, LGBTQ and the sex — sexuality — in books," he said, according to the recording. The comments, combined with the district’s subsequent decision to remove dozens of library books pending a review, fostered a "pervasively hostile" environment for LGBTQ students, the ACLU wrote in its complaint. Chloe Kempf, an ACLU attorney, said the Education Department’s decision to open the investigation into Granbury ISD signals that the agency is concerned about what she described as "a wave" of anti-LGBTQ policies and book removals nationally. |
| Posted by:The Walking Unvaxed |
| #5 They are also sueing Houston PD for the deaths of civilians killed by police chases instigated by seedy criminals who refuse to stop. |
| Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2022-12-21 16:37 |
| #4 Used to be a wide spot on the road from Fort Worth to San Angelo but may now be becoming a distant suburb of the DFW metroplex. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-12-21 10:51 |
| #3 Seems like a creative and knowledgeable prosecutor could convene a grand jury to look into a conspiracy of entities engaged in child p0rn distribution. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-12-21 07:30 |
| #2 North Texas is being attacked by an office of the government that previously I had no idea existed. It sounds as if it is more truly the Office of Jamming Woke Policy Everywhere in School. I am sure that we now are funding similar offices in every iteration of the federal government. Those offices are likely metastasizing like Dollar Generals. The government needs a thorough course of radiation and chemo along with an exorcism. A near term goal ought to be to turn all those offices into cubicles. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-12-21 04:56 |
| #1 ACLU Texas? |
| Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2022-12-21 00:15 |