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Education Desk: Palatine School Violated Transgender Student's Rights

The federal Department of Education has sent a letter to a Palatine high school inviting school officials to enter negotiations on arrangements where  a transgender female student can change clothes for PE and athletics. The DOE warned the Palatine school that the current arrangement violates Title IX. 

The case was detailed yesterday in a story in The New York Times, accompanied by a pdf of the full 14-page letter from the Office of Civil Rights to the school.

After a long career in newspapers (Dallas Observer, The Dallas Morning News, Anchorage Daily News, Illinois Times), Dusty returned to school to get a master's degree in multimedia journalism. She began work as Education Desk reporter at NPR Illinois in September 2014.