Four school districts in southern Illinois are included: they are Bluford Unit School District in Jefferson County; Buncombe Consolidated School District in Johnson County; Lick Creek Consolidated Community School District in Union County; and Tamaroa School District in Perry County.
If the schools are teaching such content, the investigations will examine whether the schools have notified parents of their right to opt their children out of such instruction.
The investigation will also assess whether the Illinois school districts limit access to single-sex intimate spaces such as bathrooms, locker rooms and girls’ sports teams based on biological sex.
“The Department of Justice is determined to put an end to local school authorities keeping parents in the dark about how sexuality and gender ideology are being pushed in classrooms,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. “Supreme Court precedent leaves no doubt: parents have the fundamental right and primary authority to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children.”
The investigations will examine whether these Illinois School Districts, which are recipients of hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer funding, are adhering to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Supreme Court’s extensive precedents on parental rights as recently reiterated in Mirabelli v. Bonta and Mahmoud v. Taylor.
The Civil Rights Division has not reached any conclusions about the subject matter of the investigations.
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