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Ilene Wachs, president of The Education Fund of the Women’s Forum, told Women’s eNews, “It’s exciting to be giving people control of their lives.”
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Ilene Wachs, president of The Education Fund of the Women’s Forum, told Women’s eNews, “It’s exciting to be giving people control of their lives.”
The school dress code rules in Tunisia are discriminatory, these girls say. “Why can boys feel comfortable in their casual clothes while we girls have to wear this smock?” one says.
With Donald Trump in the White House, some international students are steering clear of American universities.
In this student’s school, girls have to share textbooks while boys get their own.
Despite a recent court win protecting accommodations for students with disabilities in school, teen girls with an Individualized Education Program are still worried about their fates in school. DeVos “could potentially really mess up our education system,” one teen said.
While these conservative home schooled teen girls back President Trump, they don’t love everything about him. He should filter his heart,” one girl said.
Trump’s secretary of education nominee refused at her confirmation hearing to state a firm commitment to using Title IX to respond properly to sexual assault on college campuses. That’s reason for concern.
If it wasn’t for the Yale Refugee Project, girls like Noor wouldn’t be getting the services she needs after she left her home in Syria.
As schools like Stanford University face lawsuits over ignoring sexual “predators,” survivors of these assaults need better support and justice.
How do news stories about campus rape affect a teen’s choice of colleges? Video journalists Sierra Bardfeld and Jessica Roman asked teens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.