#rsu40-gender-queer

• Recent controversies drive contentious election

  Heated RSU 40 School Board election goes to the polls

  Mon, 06/10/2024 - 8:30am

  

  Four RSU 40 seats are up for grabs: two in Waldoboro and on each in Warren and Union. At stake could be the existence of the schools themselves. Several candidates’ supporters espoused belief in the dissolution of public education. Those candidates would join a growing bloc of Board Members who would choose to deny the school district funding altogether and either voted no or abstained from each budget line at this year’s annual meeting. This the second year of hotly controversial elections in...

• RSU40 School Board on verge of deleting policy protecting transgender students

  Wed, 06/05/2024 - 11:00am

  

  On Thursday, June 6, Regional School Unit 40’s regular school board meeting agenda includes the possible deletion of Policy ACAAA, Transgender and Gender Expansive Student Policy . Policy ACAAA proscribes procedures for district personnel in the event that a student “asserts a gender identity or expression different from the gender assigned at birth.” These procedures include addressing students by their preferred name and pronouns, permitting them to use the locker rooms and...
• RSU 40 community takes on the ‘Gender Queer’ debate in full force

  ‘Gender Queer’ to remain on Medomak Valley High School library shelves, RSU 40 School Board says

  Thu, 10/20/2022 - 9:30pm

  

  WALDOBORO — Following two hours of hearing public testimony, another hour in conversation with an attorney behind closed doors, and one more hour of delivering their own opinions, the Regional School Unit 40 School Board members voted at 11 p.m., Oct. 20, to keep the book Gender Queer on school library shelves. The decision concluded a year of increased school community debate over the appropriateness of the book having a spot in the Medomak Valley High School library, and a new...