Cece Cox
Resource Center Dallas is calling on DISD trustees to keep LGBT issues squarely in mind as they select a new superintendent. In a letter sent to all nine school board members today, RCD Executive Director and CEO Cece Cox notes that the district recently adopted fully LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying and non-discrimination policies. But Cox adds that while the district may be ahead of most in Texas when it comes to these things, “far too often, there is a gap between policy and practice.”
“Additionally, I encourage the district to do more to reach out to LGBT couples who have children,” Cox writes. “According to the 2010 U.S. Census, there are roughly 6,700 LGB couples in Dallas County, and around one in four of them are raising children. The superintendent should lead district efforts to reach out to these LGBT families so that they are welcomed and included in DISD schools.”
As an exclamation point, Cox mentions this week’s settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin school district, suggesting that DISD is legally obligated to enforce the anti-bullying policy and support LGBT students.
Read Cox’s full letter after the jump.
Resource Center Dallas letter about next Dallas ISD superintendent
Ohhh really now, this is what I’m talking about. Gay only care about issues that about Gay things, but yet they don’t care when they go to the polls and we get cheesy people on the school board. Folks, $
53,000 taking 5th graders to Mesquite to watch a movie? Making teachers work a extra 45 minutes and they are not getting paid? Folks, give a shit about DISD and if your are in any off theses trustees districts vote May 12!!!!