The bathroom conversion was announced to parents six days before President Donald Trump's inauguration.
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assistant secretary for civil rights Craig Trainor says federal investigators will"examine whether the District discriminates against students on the basis of sex by installing multi-stall all gender restrooms in District school facilities."from January 19 about the bathroom. However, DPS officials said the new bathroom was the result of student requests.
Trainor was announced as the USDE's acting assistant secretary for civil rights less than a week ago. He previously served as senior special counsel with the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, which is chaired by far-right Congressman Jim Jordan.that the district had two more projects at the new south campus of Denver School Arts and at CEC Early College.
"Earlier today, Denver Public Schools was made aware of an investigation opened by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights into an all gender lavatory recently added at East High School.
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