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F.C. Council Proclaims Transgender Awareness Week In a proclamation presented at Monday’s Falls Church City Council meeting, the Council declared Nov. 13-19 as Transgender Awareness Week and Nov. 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance, saying it “supports the bodily autonomy and human dignity of a ...
Thousands of high school students from throughout Virginia staged walkouts either during or following their classes Tuesday to protest the proposed changes to official state policy to limit schools’ abilities to support transgender and other gender non-conforming students. Students from over 90 ...
Laura Downs, Falls Church City Public Schools Board Chair, and Peter Noonan, Superintendent, issued the following joint statement on Tuesday: “Late Friday night, the Washington Post published an article referring to the new ‘Model Policies’ that have been developed by the Virginia Department of ...
Some school districts in Northern Virginia are pushing back against Gov. Glenn Youngkin's 2022 Model Policies guidelines that would roll back protections for trans public school students across the state. The policies, which were released on Friday, include requirements for students to use bathrooms corresponding to their sex assigned at birth; the same goes for Some school officials say Youngkin's rules go against their nondiscrimination policies.
Enrollment in the City of Falls Church’s two public secondary schools, Meridian and Henderson, are each about two dozen students above projected numbers going into the fall, Superintendent Dr. Peter Noonan reported to the season’s first School Board meeting held in the Council chambers of City H ...