"Today's announcement is a victory for the thousands of students who attend public charter schools in North Carolina and for the 3.6 million students like them nationwide," said Ria Tabacco Mar, Director of the ACLU Women's Rights Project. On Monday, however, the Supreme Court declined their request, leaving the lower court decision intact. Reversing the decision would "safeguard educational choice in states that do not impose constitutional requirements on charters."
The lower court "unleashed" "numerous harms to charter school innovation and even farther-reaching evils," they said. Lawyers for the school had asked the Supreme Court to review the case, arguing that the appeals court decision would hinder the ability of charter schools to make independent choices. "Innovative programs in North Carolina's public schools can and should continue to flourish, but not at the expense of constitutional protections for students," Judge Barbara Keenan wrote. Furthermore, the court said, sex-based dress codes are subject to review under Title IX. In June of last year, an appeals court sided against Charter Day, ruling that the school qualifies as a "state actor" accountable to the Constitution's equal protection guarantee, and that the school "acted in clear violation" of the Constitution when enacting the dress code. As to the alleged violation of Title IX, the school argued that the law does not apply to sex-based dress codes. Charter Day School responded to the parents' lawsuit by arguing that it is not subject to the equal protection guarantee because it is a private actor fulfilling a contract with the state of North Carolina, not a public entity. The Constitution's equal protection guarantee only covers public, government action, not private organizations. Lawyers for the parents argued that the skirts requirement was rooted in gender stereotypes and ultimately discriminated against female students by limiting their ability to fully participate in school activities, such as using the playground. In a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, several parents of female students attending Charter Day filed a lawsuit against the school on the grounds that the skirts requirement violated the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law as well as a federal anti-discrimination law known as Title IX. Female students wearing skirts, the school's founder said, preserves the idea that a woman is a "fragile vessel that men are supposed to take care of and honor."
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Charter Day School says it seeks to "emphasize traditional values" and enforces a dress code that requires girls to wear skirts, jumpers, or skorts. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case challenging a skirts-only dress code for girls at a North Carolina charter school, letting stand a lower court ruling that the school's dress code violated federal law.Īt the center of the case is Charter Day School, which operates independently but is designated as a public school under North Carolina state law and receives 95 percent of its funding from the government. The accused, who hails from nearby Hapur district, was booked under the stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, they said.Īccording to the 17-year-old girl's parents, she had gone missing from her house on June 6 after which they reported the matter to the local Sector 39 police station where an FIR under section 363 (missing) of the Indian Penal Code was lodged and an investigation was taken up, they (function() ) The U.S.
NOIDA: The Noida Police on Thursday arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly raping a girl studying in class 10 whom he befriended on the social media platform Instagram, officials said. He then committed the sexual assault," the official added. "The accused had befriended the minor girl (victim) through Instagram and manipulated her, luring her to accompany him. "On Thursday, the arrest of the accused was made based on inputs from local police teams and he was apprehended from the Botanical Bus Stand in Noida. He was wanted since June 7," the police spokesperson said.
After the girl was rescued and reunited with her family, police said section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the POCSO Act were also added to the case, the official added.
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