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Carroll ISD sued the federal government to block the Biden administration's rule on Title IX, saying it would hurt girls and women — the opposite of the statute's intent. On Thursday, a federal judge agreed, temporarily blocking the change from taking effect.
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The district says expanding protections to include gender identity will hurt the district, its staff and its students. The Department of Justice disagrees.
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The Carroll school board voted unanimously Wednesday night to “proceed with litigation against all necessary parties related to proposed changes to Title 9 and their effect on Carroll ISD,”Carroll ISD joins Republican-led state's backlash over Biden’s Title IX change
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The groups are calling on Carroll ISD Superintendent Lane Ledbetter to acknowledge the findings of an investigation into complaints of racism and harassment in the district.
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Four complaints of civil rights violations based on sexual orientation, race, and sex have been under investigation in Carroll ISD since 2021 by the Office for Civil Rights. Attorneys for the families say the OCR this week urged the district to resolve those complaints.
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Superintendent Lane Ledbetter, who’s led Carroll ISD since December, 2020, said the decision wasn’t made lightly, but he and his wife believe now is the “right time” to transition into retirement.
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Carroll ISD will get to keep its full Pre-K 3 curriculum — with room for expansion — after a week of uncertainty about the program's future.
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The district will permit schools to hire chaplains as counselors so long as they meet the job requirements. “The district is not hiring chaplains to be just chaplains,” said board President Cameron Bryan.
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For decades, Texas' recapture, or Robin Hood, law has redistributed money from property-wealthy districts to property-poor ones. It's intended to make education funding equitable, but some districts say the system is broken.
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Carroll ISD's board struck gender identity and sexual orientation from its nondiscrimination statement. Placing that amended policy — while adding revised bathroom and pronoun rules — to new student handbooks reignited old fires at Monday's school board meeting.
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The board’s decision comes after state lawmakers encouraged districts to cut ties with the association.
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A school board in the Dallas-Fort Worth area says it already has enough signs. Critics are testing a recently adopted Texas law that requires public schools to display a poster bearing the U.S. motto.