{"id":5552,"date":"2011-07-20T23:09:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T23:09:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T23:09:04","slug":"feds-investigate-alleged-homophobic-discrimination-at-minnesota-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2011\/07\/feds-investigate-alleged-homophobic-discrimination-at-minnesota-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds investigate alleged homophobic discrimination at Minnesota schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota&#8217;s largest public school district is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation involving alleged discrimination of gay students. <\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department together with the Department of Education&#8217;s Office of Civil Rights are looking into &#8220;allegations of harassment and discrimination in the Anoka-Hennepin School District based on sex, including peer-on-peer harassment based on not conforming to gender stereotypes,&#8221; according to a memo obtained by CNN. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/minnesota-teacher-disputes-harassment-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">In 2009, Diane Cleveland, a teacher in the district went on leave after the school paid a $25,000 settlement<\/a> to the family of a boy allegedly being harassed by Cleveland and another teacher because of his perceived sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kare11.com\/news\/article\/930985\/391\/Feds-investigate-alleged-gay-discrimination-at-MN-school-district\" target=\"_blank\">kare11.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=172516468500&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:comments numposts=\"10\" width=\"425\" publish_feed=\"true\"><\/fb:comments><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota&#8217;s largest public school district is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation involving alleged discrimination of gay students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,195],"tags":[11979],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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