Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:21:16 -0800
From: Jean Richter <richter@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: 1/10/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news, pt. 2

1. FL: Inclusive anti-harassment policy causes controversy
2. UT: State quietly changes education policy

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NAPLES DAILY NEWS, January 7, 2000
Box 7009, Naples, FL, 33941 
(Fax 941-263-4816 ) (E-MAIL: letters@naplesnews.com )
( http://www.naplesnews.com/ )
School:  Gays in school policy prompts questions, fears from public 
By DENISE ZOLDAN, Staff Writer 
     As the Collier County School Board moved forward Thursday with a proposed 
revised anti-discrimination policy for the district that specifies protection 
of gays and lesbians, the issue of how far that protection goes prompted 
questions from some parents Thursday. 

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     Bagley then questioned what happened to a person's constitutionally 
protected right to express his or her religious beliefs.  School Board 
members told Bagley and Kallenbach to take their concerns to the Diversity 
Committee, which meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, in the School Board 
administrative center, 3710 Estey Ave. 
     The meeting is open to the public. 

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From: SARATOGANY@aol.com
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 20:55:30 EST
Subject: Education board bans bias in Utah:  Activists unaware of months-old
	policy 
To: SARATOGANY@aol.com, bdm3g@gateway.net

Msg fwd by:
The Coalition for Safer Schools of NYS, PO Box 2345, Malta, NY 12020
Email to: saratogany@aol.com

"The Actual or Perceived GLBT Student Protection Project" 

CSS-NYS Note: The below article is about the Utah State Education Board's 
teacher's ethical code that now includes penalty for discrimination based 
upon sexual orientation. Does anyone know if NYS Education Department has a 
similar ethical code for teachers that includes sexual orientation 
non-discrimination?

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Washington Blade (glbt), January 7, 2000 
Washington, DC
(E-MAIL: Bladeforum@aol.com ) ( http://www.washblade.com )
Education board bans bias in Utah 
Activists unaware of months-old policy 
by Peter Freiberg 
     With so little fanfare that even Gay activists didn’t know about it, one 
of the nation’s most conservative states ­ Utah ­ has joined only four other 
states in approving a regulation that bans anti-Gay discrimination by school 
personnel. 
     Utah’s Board of Education approved the change in its ethical code last 
May, but activists did not find out until November during a court hearing on 
a lawsuit seeking to guarantee the right of public school students to meet in 
Gay-straight alliances and to express Gay-positive viewpoints in 
curricular-related clubs. 

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Jean Richter -- richter@eecs.berkeley.edu
The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally)
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