BUFFALO — A Christian advocacy group wants a Western New York school district to stop letting a transgender student use the boys’ locker rooms and restrooms, saying it violates other students’ privacy. In a letter to Le Roy High School ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Pennsylvania school district that tried to ban students from wearing “I (heart) Boobies!” bracelets to promote breast cancer awareness, ending a case that began more than three years ago ...

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WESTFIELD — A western New York school district has canceled the remainder of its varsity football season in the aftermath of a player’s death from injuries suffered during a game. The Observer of Dunkirk reports that the Westfield Board of ...

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In a First Amendment case decided last week, R.O. v. Ithaca City School District (CV 09-1651), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Ithaca City School District administrators could prohibit publication and on campus distribution of a high school student newspaper containing sexually explicit stick figures in a cartoon.

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PHILADELPHIA, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Justice has opposed a northern New York school district’s attempt to have a former student’s anti-gay-bias lawsuit dismissed in federal court. The Justice Department filed a motion in U.S. District Court on Friday ...

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