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School Committee passes transgender student policy

Posted on Monday, August 14th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dusty Crhistensen, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 8/13/2017
Link: Complete Article

Northampton High School

NORTHAMPTON — School Committee here voted on Thursday to approve a policy that expands protections to transgender and gender nonconforming students and employees of Northampton Public Schools.

“The policy you are asking about was drafted by the rules and policy subcommittee and serves to formalize what already has been the practice In NPS for quite some time,” Edward Zuchowski, vice chairman of the School Committee, wrote the Gazette in an email.

While that may be, Zuchowski and Superintendent John Provost said the policy is nevertheless valuable.

“The importance of the policy is to communicate to the community that we are very proactive in ensuring nondiscrimination on the basis of transgender or gender nonconforming status,” Provost said, stressing that the policy had been the district’s practice for some time. “In terms of the day-to-day practice in our district, students and staff will not recognize any differences.”

Continue Reading at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Northampton Public Schools

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