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The District 220 Board of Education meets this evening at 6:00 PM at the District Administration Center, 515 W. Main Street. Items on their agenda include:

A copy of the agenda packet can be viewed here. The meeting will be live streamed on the district YouTube channel.

*Related: “Barrington High School’s Polling Place Appears to Be Missing from the Notices the Law Requires,” “A Polling Place for Some: Barrington High School’s Invitation-Only Early Voting,” “District 220 board members approve policy update on political activities,” “District 220 board members violated campaign policies, investigation finds,” “Proposed Policy Change Would Strip Anonymous Formal Grievances in Barrington District 220,” “CUSD 220 Board delivers second (slappier) slap on the wrist to member Erin Chan Ding,” “CUSD 220 Board of Education public comments we applaud,” “Over $100,000 in Special Interest Funding gifted to 220 Board member’s campaign in failed bid for State Rep job,” “New Evidence of Chan Ding’s Policy Violations and Conflicts of Interest,” “The D220 Board of Ed gets another ‘F’ in accountability & transparency,” “The Real Issue in Barrington 220 Isn’t Parking or Levies — It’s Leadership Culture,” “BOARD OF ED VOTES, MEMBER CHAN DING MADE FLAGRANT POLICY VIOLATIONS – Part 2,” “BOARD OF ED VOTES, MEMBER CHAN DING MADE FLAGRANT POLICY VIOLATIONS,” “District 220’s Lack of Transparency (Updated),” “District 220’s Lack of Transparency” and “Change.org Petition: ‘For the Resignation of Erin Chan Ding ~ D220 Resources are Not for Political Campaigns’”

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“Many of you have asked when is Durty Nellie’s last official day open? It is now official. October 4th will be our last day. Until then we have some great live music and good times to enjoy.

Stop in and reminisce and say goodbye to Jimmy, the family, the staff and all of our friends. We are grateful for all the love and support we have had from our patrons over the years. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And as the Irish say ‘Slainte’”

Source: Durty Nellie’s Facebook

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Image courtesy M.A. Rothman

By M.A. Rothman via Facebook

A federal judge just told a teenage girl and her father that under Title IX, she has no right to a bathroom or locker room free of biological boys.

𝐔.𝐒. 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧, nominated by President Obama in 2010 to the Northern District of Illinois, dismissed the lawsuit brought by a student identified only as F.F. and her father, James Ellard Fisher, against 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝟑𝟔𝟓𝐔 in suburban Chicago.*

The family argued the district violated Title IX and the Constitution’s equal protection clause by letting biological male students into girls-only bathrooms and locker rooms. Coleman disagreed, ruling that Illinois law lets schools allow transgender students to use the facilities of their choice, and that federal civil rights law only requires facilities be “𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦” across the sexes, not sex-separated.

Read Rothman’s full post here.

*Valley View Community Unit School District 365U (VVSD) is a large public school district in Will County, Illinois, serving most of Bolingbrook and Romeoville, plus portions of Plainfield, Lockport, and Downers Grove – Wikipedia.

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