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Transgender athletes in sports are controversial right now.This Atlanta league is one response.

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This is the first report to draw a connection between suicide and anti-trans laws.

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Yet child welfare workers don't receive formal training on working with parents with disabilities.

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The agreement concludes a federal civil rights investigation into Four Rivers Special Education District.

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This “manual for conservative policy thought” would transform American education from start to finish.

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Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York are involved in investigations of Shrub Oak International School.

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Only 55% of schools in Michigan’s 25 largest districts showed patterns of equitable spending.

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University of San Diego professors are developing programs to empower neurodivergent students to thrive.

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Different treatment based on assumed genitali was discrimination on the basis of sex.

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The department violated state and federal law when it refused to provide records.

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A challenge of Tennessee’s school restroom/locker room laws by transgender students remains alive.

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In medical-legal partnerships, health and law professionals team up to address health-harming legal needs.

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Two days after new Title IX rules were published, 15 states announced they're suing.

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Universal design views everyone’s needs for access as equally important, regardless of their limitations. 

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The new regulations from the Biden administration strengthen protections for sex discrimination, reversing Trump-era changes.

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LGBTQ+ foster kid support vanished; silence blankets the agency tasked with raising LGBTQ+ children.

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Categories like these are cited hundreds of thousands of times yearly to justify suspensions.

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Camp Twin Lakes provides experiences that are both medically and physically adaptive and supportive.

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Hundreds of people gathered at Lake Acworth to "Polar Plunge" into frigid waters.

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