Used Book in Good Condition</br></br>Product Description</br></br><div>Despite significant advances for gay and transgender persons in the United States?? the public school environment remains daunting?? even frightening?? as evidenced by numerous high-profile incidents of discrimination?? bullying?? violence?? and suicide. Yet efforts to protect the rights of lesbian?? gay?? bisexual?? and transgender (LGBT) students and educators?? or to enhance curricula to better reflect the experience of differing sexual orientations and gender identities?? are bitterly opposed in the courtroom?? at the ballot box?? and especially in the schools themselves.</div><div><BR><I>The Right to Be Out</I> begins with a cogent history and analysis of the dramatic legal developments concerning the rights of LGBT persons since 1968. Stuart Biegel then turns to what K-12 schools should do-and in many cases have already done-to implement right-to-be-out policies. He examines recent legal and public policy changes that affect LGBT students and educators in the K-12 public school system.</div><div>?</div><div>Un