Sexual assault. Marianne rafferty is live with a fight that is escalating across the country. Marianne good evening. Reporter good evening trace. In his opinion temporarily blocking rules j David F Bowman says he hopes the state and School Boards can negotiate in good faith and strike a balance between protecting transgender students and the rights of parents to bring up their kids. Three School Districts in Monmouth County were sued by the state back in june after adopting policies that require teachers and staff to inform a parent if their child wanted to use pronouns or School Facilities that did not conform to their sex at birth. That injunction is temporary while the larger case plays out in the states civil rights division. Temperature attorney representing the Marlboro Board Of Education saying that process could take years. In the meantime he writes the School District is now severely constrained in its ability to notify parents about important issues involving their minor chil
Schools are allowed to keep a childs sexuality a secret from their parents. The Senior National correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the breaking information on this. Kevin good evening. Reporter evening trace. Three Monmouth County new jersey districts are being sued by the state of new jersey for passing versions of policy requiring teachers to inform parents if a student is seeking a transgender accommodation, such as using a new pronoun or bathroom. Today was the first time the state publicly argued its case against the middletown, marlboro and Manalapan Englishtown School Districts, districts whose leaders agree that the aim here, trace, is to strike a balance between care for the children and the rights of parents. I dont think that our policy is discriminatory in any way. I think we carefully crafted it to be compassionate and to actually attend to the needs of our district. Reporter meanwhile a spokesperson for the Office Of The Attorney General in new jersey said in a
The rational hispanic caucus pressures President Biden to investigate the separation of migrant families at the border. We go inside fukushima. This is a multibillion dollar effort being spent, it will take some time to complete the work. Major funding has been provided by, moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf. The engine that connects us. The walton foundation, working for solutions to protect water during climate change. The john deere and Catherine T Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just world. With the ongoing support of these institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and for contributions by viewers like you. Geoff good evening. As Disaster Recovery efforts ramp up across maui, so has the search operation. The death toll. Its been one week since the first buyers tore through maui. We lost everything. The official safe two regions are ablaze. As of tuesday night its 85 contained. Search teams have been recovering hum
More than 50 lives. Almost 2,000 buildings. In moments, well talk to a local pastor about what the church is doing to help, but first to the Senior National correspondent William Lajeunesse live for us on the ground in maui with the very latest. William. Reporter trace, were in the harbor about ten miles south of la hind a and this is also where the Police Roadblock is and the check point. People cant get into lahina because theyre still looking for bodies but if you want to go you have to go by boat but thats supposed to be illegal. We heard some incredible stories today from people who were in the water for eight hours or more, waited to be picked up and had jumped to avoid the flames in lahina per se. One thing i heard today over and over, the speed of this fire was so great, people could just not they couldnt get out in time. They couldnt even see the flames, the smoke was so thick. Traffic was backed up. People literally died in their cars. Now, lahina is of course the hardest hit
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