Students at schools across the country voiced grievances about rocketing student debt and spiraling job opportunities.
Following years of controversy about bullying in her district, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann responded to an online petition.
The school, the Minnesota Department of Education and the ACLU reached a partial settlement in the case that requires charter schools to sign an annual statement declaring under penalty of law that the schools are not promoting religion.
The federal Department of Education and the Department of Justice have also launched investigations into the district after the suicide deaths of nine students in the past two years, several of whom were known to identify as LGBT.
States, including Minnesota, have complained about requirements of the unpopular education program since its introduction.
Investigations of the bullying of LGBT kids is the biggest growth area in the Department of Justice’s civil rights division.
On Tuesday, the New York Times featured a front page article about the Anoka-Hennepin School District and its two-year long struggle to defend policies that limit discussion of LGBT issues in district schools. It’s an issue the Minnesota Independent has covered from the beginning.The following is a full account of the dispute.
The campaign team chosen by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann reflect her religious faith and far-right political positions, but may turn off moderate and mainstream voters.
Three members of he Anoka-Hennepin School Board are up for reelection in 2011, and challengers have filed to run in two of those seats. The school district has seen a contentious last two years, including a major push to revamp a policy that limits discussions of LGBT issues in schools, which was followed by another lawsuit filed by students alleging an unsafe school environment. Most candidates say, however, that the LGBT controversy is only part of their decision to run.
Today’s battle over how to address LGBT issues in Minnesota’s largest school district is nothing new. For the past 20 years, conservative Christian parents in the Anoka-Hennepin School District have been working to make their beliefs — from creationism to the negative effects of R-rated movies and the “Goosebumps” books on children — have impact in district schools. Their tactics have included the banning of books and films, changes to school curriculum and the forced resignation of an LGBT teacher.
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