Feds alert schools to ramifications of not complying with newly outlined rules for transgendered students

By: 
Erin Sommers Graphic-Advocate Editor

South Central Calhoun School District received a letter last week from two federal agencies that have made headlines recently for threats of withholding funding for schools that don’t conform to new rules for how to treat transgendered students.
Specifically, SCC Superintendent Jeff Kruse told school board members May 16, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education wrote to districts to instruct them on how to handle transgendered students, with regards to which bathroom, locker room and sports should be available to such students.
“As we get more guidance, we’ll have to figure out how to handle this,” Kruse told board members, adding federal officials have said just making a single bathroom available as a transgendered bathroom is not an acceptable option.
SCC received about $525,00 last year in federal funding, out of a total revenue of nearly $15 million, board secretary Carol Collins said Tuesday. 
Read more in the May 25 edition. 

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