Thursday, March 28

North Carolina school can’t require girls to wear skirts, court rules


WILMINGTON, NC – A federal appeals court has ruled that a North Carolina charter school violated female students’ constitutional rights by requiring them to wear skirts, reversing a previous decision.

On Tuesday, the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled 10-6 that the dress code at Charter Day School in Leland is a violation of Title IX – a federal law protecting students in public schools from gender-based discrimination.

The school opened in 2000 to teach students from kindergarten through 8th grade and to promote “traditional values.”

In 2016, guardians of three girls attending Charter filed a lawsuit against the school claiming that its dress code prohibiting female students from wearing shorts or pants, was discrimination.

In 2019, a district court found that as a state actor, the school was in violation of the Equal Protections Clause of the constitution.


www.usatoday.com

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