North Carolina charter school violated female students’ constitutional rights by requiring them to wear skirts, federal appeals court rules.
RICHMOND, Va. — A North Carolina charter school violated female students’ constitutional rights by requiring them to wear skirts, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.dress code at Charter Day School in Leland violated female students’ equal protection rights
The court also ordered further hearings should be held by a lower federal court on claims that the policy violated the federal Title IX anti-discrimination law.by a three-judge panel of the same court that had found the public charter school wasn’t subject to the equal protection clause because it didn’t meet all criteria to be considered a state actor.
The students who challenged the policy were in grades kindergarten through eighth. They argued that they were receiving unequal treatment to male students, noting that the dress code limited their ability to participate in recess and made them uncomfortable in some situations such as emergency drills in which they had to crawl on the floor.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North CarolinaLegendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men will have their sentences vacated posthumously.
Read more »
Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North CarolinaLegendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men will have their sentences vacated posthumously
Read more »
Freedom Riders' 1947 Convictions Vacated in North CarolinaLegendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men will have their sentences vacated posthumously.
Read more »
Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North CarolinaToday civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men, who launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge Jim Crow laws, will have their sentences posthumously vacated
Read more »
North Carolina 5-year-old dead after allegedly impaired driver strikes golf cartA 23-year-old in North Carolina allegedly hit a golf cart near Statesville, which killed 2 people and left four others injured, according to WBTV.
Read more »
Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North CarolinaHILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge Jim Crow laws had their convictions posthumously vacated Friday, more than seven decades later.
Read more »