PROUD Academy, a school for LGBTQ youth, to open in September
A new school for LGBTQ students and allies is set to open this fall in New Haven. This hour, we preview the plans for PROUD Academy with founder and executive director Patty Nicolari, and hear from Maddie and Tiffanie, a prospective student and their parent in Fairfield.
Nicolari says this would be the first school for LGBTQ youth in Connecticut, and at least the fifth in the U.S.
But first, the U.S Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is investigating a discrimination complaint filed by several Farmington parents, alleging the district didn’t step in to stop LGBTQ bullying…
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