House Committee Probes Chicago Schools Over Gender Transition Secrecy, Sets Sept. 11 Deadline
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 27
House Committee Probes Chicago Schools Over Gender Transition Secrecy, Sets Sept. 11 Deadline
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 27
Summary
Sept. 11 is the deadline the House Education and Workforce Committee gave Chicago Public Schools to turn over guidance, complaints and training materials on gender and sexuality.
Chair Tim Walberg said CPS policies and a "Gender Diversity Toolkit" bar staff from disclosing a student's transgender status or gender-nonconforming presentation without the student's permission, even without parental consent.
The inquiry challenges Superintendent Macquline King's June 10 testimony that CPS does not hide information from parents and says she failed to explain whether district policies were changed after the Supreme Court's Mirabelli ruling.
Mirabelli v. Bonta held parents were likely to succeed in challenging a California policy that blocked schools from informing parents about a child's gender identity, giving Republicans a new federal benchmark for scrutinizing school disclosure rules.