Sentences with phrase «lgbt staff in schools»
The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has announced that it is working to develop advice for school leaders on how to better support LGBT staff in schools.
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86 % of teachers at the NASUWT's LGBT Teachers» Consultation Conference, held today (Saturday) in Birmingham, have said they do not think the Government is doing enough to communicate the importance of LGBTI equality to schools and colleges Only 7 % of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) teachers say their school or college provides training to staff to identify and deal with incidents of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.
This year, he was able to secure $ 200,000 to advance the integration of LGBT issues in curricula, far from the millions that will be required to bring all schools up to speed in this area and make them safe for LGBT students and staff.
That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.
The NAHT will be inviting a number of LGBT organisations to work with them to develop advice for school leaders on how to support staff to be open about their own sexuality or gender in school and how to create a inclusive school environment.
The results of this work were disturbing - most LGBT young people surveyed experienced extensive harassment and / or discrimination in New York City schools, both by peers and by school staff....