Arne Duncan to nation’s schools: Don’t outlaw gay-straight student support groups

Dan82 · Jun 15, 2011

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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said all along that he wants his agency to step up its civil rights work. (The office is headed by the impressive Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education.)

Today, Duncan continued to demonstrate that commitment to student civil rights, issuing a “Dear Colleagues” letter to school districts reminding them that they can’t kick gay-straight alliances and clubs out of their schools under a law passed in the Reagan administration...

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Kanen · Jun 16, 2011

*facepalm*

I just spent the first five minutes reading that thinking the title said "Arne Duncan to Nation's Schools: Don't allow gay-straight student support groups"

And I was wondering why it didn't make sense.

But this is nice! I like this - I am planning on trying to start a GSA at my school next year. Just another thing that I can give the administration to make them allow it.

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