Groups challenge school district over human rights law

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Groups challenge school district over human rights law

BY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | jennifer.kelleher@newsday.com
    September 16, 2008

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/education/ny-lieast165845215sep16,0,3158521.story

Eleven advocacy groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, the New York Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal, are taking issue with a claim that the East Meadow School District does not consider itself an "education corporation or association."

The district made that claim in its appeal of a state Division of Human Rights decision that East Meadow violated human rights law in not allowing a hearing-impaired boy to bring his service dog to school.

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Lambda Legal, which fights for civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV, filed the brief on behalf of the 11 organizations even though the case does not involve any gay rights issues.