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Title: New Columbus school board members not afraid to ask questions
Post by: Allamakee on January 06, 2010, 12:51:33 AM
New Columbus school board members not afraid to ask questions
The Columbus Dispatch
by Bill Bush
January 5, 2010

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/01/05/new-school-bd-members-ask-questions.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101#story-continues (http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/01/05/new-school-bd-members-ask-questions.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101#story-continues)

The board unanimously approved adding sexual orientation and "gender identity or expression" a male who considers himself female and vice-versa to the district's anti-discrimination policy for staff and students. Students who violate the policy could be expelled and staff who violate it could be fired, Harris said.