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Game Changer? FAQs for Georgia Schools About the New Gender Identification Rules in Sports

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As the start of school quickly approaches for Georgia private K-12 schools, there’s a little more planning to do this year: getting up to speed on the state’s new gender identification requirements for interscholastic...more

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Update on Title IX Enforcement – OCR Is Moving Beyond Sports

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If you haven’t read the recent press releases from the Department of Education reflecting their summer enforcement focus around Title IX, below we’ll dive into what happened this month. Penn’s agreement with the Office for...more

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Transgender Accommodations and Parental Rights

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A Pennsylvania federal district court held that a school district may have violated fundamental parental rights by not informing a parent of her child’s request to be considered transgender. In 2022, an eighth-grade...more

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Challenge to State Regulatory Rules Offering Protections for LGBTQ+ Students Filed in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court

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When we wrote in August about the impact of the Supreme Court’s Loper-Bright decision on the various federal district court rulings invalidating the Department of Education’s 2024 Title IX regulations, we reminded readers...more

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New Executive Order Addressing “Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling”: What School Leaders Need to Know

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On January 29, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (“Order”) entitled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.” The Order asserts that “schools indoctrinate children in radical, anti-American ideologies...more

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Here’s How the Highly Anticipated Changes to Title IX Could Affect Colleges, Universities, and Public K-12 Schools

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The Department of Education (DOE) is expected to issue two major amendments to Title IX regulations next month that could cause headaches for educational institutions with classes already in full swing. One rule will address...more

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Legal Issues Involving Transgender Students

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In recent years, the legal rights of transgender students have been litigated in courts around the country. While court decisions have provided some guidance for school districts, many questions remain. This article addresses...more

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Updated Federal Guidance: School Districts Must Include Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in their Food and Nutrition...

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On May 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) announced an update to its complaint processing policy. FNS will now interpret the prohibition on sex discrimination as...more

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Top 6 Workplace Law Predictions for Education Employers – and What You Should Do to Prepare

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We recently provided our predictions for what education employers could expect to see in the area of workplace law over the next year as part of our FP Forecast series – but we had too many insights to fit into that edition....more

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The Top 15 Workplace Law Stories from October 2021

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Texas Legislative Update on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-Related Bills

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In the recent 87th legislative session, the Texas Legislature contended with several bills that address or may impact areas relevant to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within Texas government, public and...more

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When Pronouns Matter: Legal Issues Related To Transgender Students

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In a 5 to 0 vote, the West Point Public Schools Board of Education terminated Peter Vlaming, a French teacher employed by the District for approximately seven years, for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred male...more

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10-Step Plan To Ensure Bullying Doesn’t Cost You

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For the first time, a court used a civil rights law to hold a school district financially accountable in a case of student bullying. In the recent case of Cohen v. Philadelphia School District, the court awarded $500,000 to a...more

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Trump Administration Withdraws Transgender Guidance

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On February 22, 2017, one day before briefs were submitted to the Supreme Court in a case involving a transgender student in Pennsylvania, the Trump Administration, through the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department...more

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