States requiring schools to teach sex education have lower teen pregnancy rates; some say high teen pregnancy rates in some Virginia localities are a direct result of the lack of a sex ed requirement in the Commonwealth's schools. In the early 2000s, Martinsville, a...
Transgender Teen Student Who Sued School Board Gets Major Federal Court Win – Years After He Graduated
Gavin Grimm has won another important victory in his fight against the Gloucester County school system that kept him from using the correct bathroom during his high school years. Gavin Grimm became a household name overnight, it seemed. The transgender teenage high...
OPINION: Does Betsy DeVos Have a Point About Campus Sexual Assault Guidelines?
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced that the Department of Education would be reviewing campus sexual assault guidelines passed by the during the Obama Presidency. She stated, among other things, that “through intimidation and coercion, the failed system has...
Virginia senator pushing bills to reform rape kit testing and college sexual assault investigations
Sen. Sen. Barbara Favola, (D, Arlington), is hoping to improve the way sexual assaults are handled on college campuses and eliminate the backlog of untested rape kits with the proposal of two bills in the 2016 General Assembly. SB 158 deals with untested rape kits, or...
VCU Faced Federal investigation over Title IX violations related to sexual assault and discrimination by faculty
“When I met with the commonwealth’s attorney after filing the police report, she compared VCU’s response to the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky cover-up,” stated a VCU employee and ’08 alumna who asked to remain anonymous, in an email to an attorney advisor of the Office of...
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