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Next to complaints relating to law enforcement, the concern for schools and education generates the greatest demand for the attention of human relations commissions. Because school decision making is diffused between boards of education, school administrators, and faculties human rights commissions are usually not able to establish strong working relationships with the education community and special strategies need to be developed.

Outstanding resources and model programs are available that cover just about every facet of education that would be of concern to a commission. Commissions may form education committees to examine specific needs, identify resources and programs, and develop strategies.

U.S. dismisses Jewish students’ complaint against UC Berkeley

By | August 28th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

Protests on campus against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians ‘do not constitute actionable harassment,’ the Department of Education

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Oberlin Student Says Racist Postings on Campus Were Meant as a ‘Joke’

By | August 26th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

An Oberlin College student acknowledged posting anti-Islam fliers and racist cards around the campus of the Ohio institution earlier this year, saying he had meant them as a “joke” to provoke a reaction, the Associated Press reported, citing reports by the campus police and the City of Oberlin police.

Read more in The Chronicle

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School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys

By | August 23rd, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome? A flurry of incidents last spring suggests that the answer is no. In May, Christopher Marshall, age 7, was suspended from his Virginia school for picking up a pencil and using it to “shoot” a

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Jury clears LAUSD in bullying/abuse lawsuit filed by autistic boy

By | August 16th, 2013|Disability, Education|

A jury has rejected a lawsuit brought on behalf of an autistic child who claimed he was bullied and physically abused by a behavioral

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WWE star speaks at anti-bullying rally after announcing he’s gay

By | August 16th, 2013|Education|

After becoming the latest high-profile athlete to announce that he is gay, Darren Young, a professional wrestler with World Wrestling Entertainment, spoke briefly at an anti-bullying assembly Thursday at Samuel Gompers Middle School in South Los Angeles.

Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.

 

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How Should We React to White Student Unions?

By | August 16th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations|

In August 2012, Matthew Heimbach, then a senior at Towson University, formed a “White Student Union.” By April 2013, the first

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Gov. Brown signs transgender-student bill allowing K-12 kids to use whichever restroom or locker room they want

By | August 13th, 2013|Education, LGBTQ+|

SACRAMENTO — California on Monday became the first state to enshrine certain rights for transgender K-12 students in state law, requiring public schools to allow those students access to whichever restroom and locker room they want.

Read more in the Daily News of Los Angeles.

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