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Gavin Grimm with his mother, Deirdre Grimm, in 2016. The transgender teen sued the Gloucester County School Board in Virginia after it barred him from the boys bathroom. CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Nikki Kahn
Four northern Virginia school systems are declaring in court their support for the rights of transgender students, weighing in on a landmark case involving a teenager embroiled in a years-long legal fight over his attempt to use the boys restroom at his high school.
The school boards in the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church, and Fairfax and Arlington counties, said last month in court papers that they stand behind Gavin Grimm, a transgender teen who sued the school board in Gloucester County, Virginia, after he was barred from the boys restroom.
When the US state of Virginia s largest school district began allowing students time off to protest in 2019, the backlash was swift and partisan: Conservative critics denounced Fairfax County Public Schools for coddling its too-liberal, too-sensitive youth and predicted kids would abuse the policy to play hooky. But a year later, the Virginia General Assembly is poised to pass legislation that will take Fairfax s policy statewide, permitting more than 680,000 middle and high school students across 130-plus school systems one excused absence every year to engage in a civic event.
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From left, Adrian Klaits and Matthew Savage of the Virginia Young Democrats Teen Caucus, and Josh Lyon of the Teenage Republican Federation of Virginia in Falls Church, Virginia.
FAIRFAX, Va. (CN) A Virginia judge has denied a preliminary injunction sought by parents of middle school students who sued the Fairfax County School Board over a plan to jettison standardized testing as part of the admissions process for one of the nation’s top high schools.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is a so-called governor’s school. As such, the lawsuit argued, it operates as a high school for gifted students identified through multiple criteria, including aptitude or achievement tests.
But in his ruling Tuesday, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge John Tran found that no Virginia Department of Education regulation “requires specific measures for selecting candidates for admission to a governor’s school.”
The Fairfax County School Board voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to bring all students back in-person for hybrid learning by March 16. Superintendent Scott.
Fairfax County found that elderly Black and Latino residents are underrepresented in vaccine distribution, and Montgomery County says its wealthiest neighborhoods are getting vaccinated at much higher rates than mixed income ones as the Washington region struggles to equitably distribute vaccines.
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Nicole Cacozza is a native Washingtonian, former ANC Commissioner, and current Adams Morgan resident. She s a fan of DC sports, open streets, and all weather biking. Share