Sentences with phrase «straight alliances»

Consultation Commented On: Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties Association, Consultation on Gay Straight Alliances, January 27, 2015

Bill 13 gets it right that students should not be stopped by schools (whether Catholic or not) from calling their clubs «Gay - Straight Alliances,» if they deal with bullying of gay students and issues of homophobia.

During committee hearings, the government heard loud and clear that it is important that students who want to establish student - led, single - issue groups, like gay - straight alliances in their schools should be supported and allowed to do so.

In this case, those opposed to gay - straight alliances are failing in that duty.

However, I do have a problem with the name «Gay - Straight Alliances» being part of the Bill and indirectly making the focus of the anti-bullying Bill a gay, lesbian and transgendered issue.

Instead, the big story of the convention is how it was derailed by a membership base weirdly obsessed with Gay - Straight Alliances.

TORONTO, ONTARIO --(March 11, 2014)-- The Mississauga Catholic School Board is systematically denying students their constitutional right to form Gay Straight Alliances, in direct violation of Bill 13, Accepting Schools Act.

ABlawg Civil Liberties Association Holds Public Consultation on Gay - Straight Alliances in Schools

Support student clubs and activities that promote a positive school climate, such as gay - straight alliances and multi-cultural clubs.

The article includes studies, such as one conducted for the Massachusetts Department of Education, that suggest that the existence of gay - straight alliances (GSAs) and practitioner training can significantly improve the school experience for both LGBT students and their peers.

Once at HGSE, Mundy - Shephard credits two courses — Associate Professor John Diamond's Race, Class, and Educational Inequality and Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo's Cultural Explanations for Ethnic and Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs).

«This research provides further evidence for the positive effect of school - based supports — comprehensive anti-bullying policies, Gay - Straight Alliances (GSAs), supportive educators and LGBT - inclusive curriculum — on LGBTQ students» experiences with harassment and discrimination and, ultimately, their educational outcomes,» said Dr. Joseph Kosciw, GLSEN's Chief Research & Strategy Officer.

Letting principals and other administrators know why Gay - Straight Alliances, enumerated policies and other resources are so important to creating safe and respectful school communities.

Latino unions, gay - straight alliances, the Future Business Leaders of America, the French Honors Society, the jazz band, the knitting club?

Before arriving in Cambridge, he helped establish approximately 50 gay - straight alliances in communities all around Massachusetts, along with a few in neighboring states.

In the past several decades, gay - straight alliances (GSAs), antibullying programs, and «safe space» stickers have become commonplace practices to protect LGBTQ youth from harmful harassment.

The goal of these gay - straight alliances is to make school communities feel safe and welcoming to all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Gay - Straight Alliances: Ground Zero for School Tolerance No other extracurricular activity has sparked the controversy and legal challenge the formation of Gay - Straight Alliance clubs has.

The duo will look at the drastic measures adults are taking to combat the perceived dangers of teenage promiscuity, «sexting,» and gay - straight alliances.

Dec. 16, 2016 — Artificial kidneys, gay - straight alliances and junkyard batteries captured readers» attention in 2016.

Common Roads, as the youth programming arm of the Center, serves LGBT youth in Central Pennsylvania through weekly group meetings in Harrisburg and Lancaster, support for area high school and college gay - straight alliances (GSAs) and community education and training on creating a safe space for LGBT youth.

New Democrats feel their best shot at re-election cuts a straight path through Kenney's social values, policies and past comments against same - sex marriage and abortion, as well as his more recent comments that parents ought to be informed that their kids are in school gay - straight alliances.

Ms. Blakeman made headlines last fall for leading the debate in favour of allowing student - created Gay - Straight Alliances in Alberta schools.

UCP opposition to Bill 24: An Act to Support Gay - Straight Alliances, has caught the party on the wrong side of public opinion and on the wrong side of history.

A motion supporting Gay - Straight Alliances introduced by Liberal Party MLA Kent Hehr was defeated in April 2014 and a private members» bill introduced by Liberal Laurie Blakeman in November 2014 derailed the PC agenda for the fall sitting.

Arguably, Mr. Prentice's only missteps in his first few months in office were his aborted Gay - Straight Alliances bill and the unease caused after he tactfully dismantled the Official Opposition (see # 2 below).

And Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman will introduce a private members» bill supporting students who want to create Gay - Straight Alliances in their schools.

The female narrator warns: «Jason Kenney's extreme policy on GSAs (gay - straight alliances) would force teachers to out gay students... Jason Kenney.

Kenney hasn't chosen thus far to do that, and in his only statement raised the straw man that this gay - straight alliance legislation could affect kids as young as five — though the clubs are essentially for junior high and high schools, not kindergarteners in any context anybody imagines.

Be it resolved that the Legislative Assembly urge the Government to introduce legislation, like Manitoba's and Ontario's, requiring all school boards to develop policies to support students who want to lead and establish gay - straight alliance activities and organizations, using any name that is consistent with the promotion of a positive school environment that is inclusive, welcoming, and respectful for all students regardless of sexuality, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

In 2010, Abilene Christian University declined to grant official status to a gay - straight alliance.

We need to have a gay - straight alliance in every school,» said City Councilman Daniel Dromm, a former Queens elementary school teacher who made headlines years ago when he came out as gay.

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Among them was a mandate to establish «school - based support groups for gay, lesbian, and heterosexual students» — a gay - straight alliance.

Teacher Bob Parlin launched the first gay - straight alliance in a public school.

ACLU LGBT Project Helps protect young people's right to express themselves, start gay - straight alliance clubs, have their gender identity respected, and be taught in a safe environment.

Neither the board nor the principal shall refuse to allow a pupil to use the name gay - straight alliance or a similar name

(b) use the name «gay - straight alliance» or any other name that is consistent with the promotion of a positive school environment that is inclusive and accepting of all pupils.

To the homophobic Principal who told me that she didn't think a gay teacher should be part of the GSA [gay straight alliance]-- we need real leaders, not sheep.»

The gay - straight alliance group at Gonzalez's school received the Voice for Equality award after the young adults were recognized for their efforts that called for stricter gun laws following the tragedy at their high school last month.

«I've been fighting for a GSA (gay straight alliance) at my high school for three years and I've stood in front of our school board 17 times to make it happen.

Not exact matches

Sylvia Sanchez, a social worker at Voyages Preparatory HS in Corona, described how students created a gay - straight student alliance that leads workshops and panel discussions at the school and has given in - class video presentations.

Don't be fooled by the sugar candy - coating — Darren Stein's G.B.F. is an incisive look at coming out in high school in the era of gay - straight - alliances.

That year, students at the school created the state's first Gay Straight Alliance, and the ensuing backlash prompted the Salt Lake City School District to shut down all extracurricular clubs amid threats that Utah's lawmakers would change state law or forgo millions of dollars in federal education funding if the alliance remained.

Once again the Google / Sony alliance is strengthened, and the momentum of their combined flying wedge is aimed straight at Microsoft.