ACLU Says Ky. District Not Providing Anti-Bias Training

By Karla Scoon Reid

The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a federal judge to reopen its lawsuit against a Kentucky school district that was ordered to provide training emphasizing tolerance toward gay students.

The motion filed this month began the latest chapter in a battle that started three years ago, when a group of students formed a gay-straight student club and sought permission to meet at Boyd County High School in Cannonsburg.

Rather than allow the group to meet, the Boyd County school board banned all student clubs in 2002. A federal judge ordered the next year that the student-led Gay-Straight Alliance be allowed to meet...

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