The Supreme Court is set to take up at least two cases regarding K-12 education in the term that begins next week, according to K-12 Dive.
One case, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, involves whether Catholic preschools that receive public funding have to enroll children whose parents are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
Two Catholic parishes and their preschools sued Colorado, because the state requires them to sign a nondiscrimination agreement in order to receive public funding for universal preschool. The parishes said the agreement violates their First Amendment rights because it would require them to enroll children, regardless of their parents’ sexual orientation or gender identity.
The second case, Thomas Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, looks at whether employees of schools and colleges that receive federal funding can sue their employers for sex discrimination under Title IX. The case stems from complaints filed by two University System of Georgia employees who said the university discriminated against them on the basis of sex when it fired them. One was a women’s basketball coach who was fired after filing a complaint alleging the university was not providing the women’s team the same resources as the men’s team. The other employee was an art professor whose contract was not renewed after a Title IX investigation involving allegations of sexual harassment.
This story was originally published by EdSource.