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CCSD updates graduation regalia policy one year after ACLU suit

Las Vegas Review-Journal·Spencer Levering·21 days ago
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The Clark County School District has updated its graduation regalia policy nearly one year after it was sued over its former policy. The new policy states that students can wear up to five stoles and “any regalia, decorations, or adornments that lay flat on the cap and do not exceed the dimensions of the cap” at their graduation ceremony. It also creates a new optional preapproval process for wearing cap and gown decorations, eliminating the former mandatory approval process. The new policy was approved in the consent agenda at Thursday’s Clark County School Board meeting. Updates to the graduation regalia policy come almost one year after the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada sued the district on behalf of former CCSD student Corie Humphrey. The lawsuit indicated that Humphrey, then a senior at East Career and Technical Academy, was told she couldn’t wear a stole with “Black Girl Magic” written on it. Humphrey wanted to wear the stole to represent her Black culture, according to the lawsuit.…

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