{"id":1703,"date":"2025-05-20T11:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:40:49","slug":"aclu-sues-nevada-school-district-over-graduation-regalia-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/aclu-sues-nevada-school-district-over-graduation-regalia-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU sues Nevada school district over graduation regalia policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.8newsnow.com\/news\/local-news\/aclu-files-lawsuit-against-ccsd-over-its-graduation-regalia-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KLAS<\/a>) \u2014 Although Nevada has a law that allows students to wear certain regalia on their caps and gowns at school graduation ceremonies, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5257350-aclu-sues-trump-administration-international-students\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5257350-aclu-sues-trump-administration-international-students\/\">American Civil Liberties Union <\/a>(ACLU) filed a lawsuit on behalf of a student, stating that the Las Vegas-area Clark County School District (CCSD) isn&#8217;t following the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the fourth year in a row, we are again hearing stories about CCSD schools enforcing unconstitutional restrictions on students\u2019 decorating their caps and gowns at their high school graduation,&#8221; the ACLU said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our clients and their families deserve the right to express themselves and celebrate their graduation,&#8221; the union added.<\/p>\n<p>The law states that students are &#8220;entitled to wear traditional tribal regalia or recognized objects of religious or cultural significance as an adornment at a school graduation ceremony.&#8221; However, school boards and school officials can ban a specific item if it&#8217;s &#8220;likely to cause a substantial disruption of, or material interference with, [a graduation] ceremony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, said the graduating student wanted to wear the following items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A stole with the written message <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/research\/story\/essence-black-girl-magic-history-black-womens-image-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Black Girl Magic&#8221;<\/a> to represent herself<\/li>\n<li>A black and red stole to represent her time with the ACLU of Nevada&#8217;s Emerging Leaders program<\/li>\n<li>A pin signifying her membership in the National Honor Society<\/li>\n<li>The stoles and cords provided by her school signify her achievements at a local career and technical academy<\/li>\n<li>A cap decorated with small paper flowers, gems and crystals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ACLU gave all the students in its Nevada Emerging Leaders program a graduation stole and pin to wear at graduation, and states in the suit that not being able to wear these violates the Nevada law and the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The suit contends that CCSD has not provided proper guidance to schools, causing individual schools to create their own guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KLAS) \u2014 Although Nevada has a law that allows students to wear certain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}