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We're excited to introduce one of our latest projects: a podcast and written media series in partnership with Delaware Call and the Highlands Bunker.

Our public schools litigation has ended, but the work is just beginning. These two bills are a direct result of our agreement with the state from the court challenge we brought to the state in 2018. These bills will bring legislative change to education funding in Delaware — and that's long overdue.

Arnold & Porter, ACLU of Delaware, and Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI), along with the plaintiffs, Delawareans for Educational Opportunity and the NAACP of Delaware, are thrilled to announce a final agreement with Sussex County in the Delaware Public Schools litigation.

Delawareans for Educational Opportunity and the NAACP of Delaware announced today that they have reached a settlement with Governor John Carney in their education equity lawsuit. Here is our press release.

Delaware’s criminal justice, economic and educational systems need some fundamental changes, and we’re the people willing to drive that change. It’s time for all of us to join together with a bold “People’s Platform” that highlights the direction we Delawareans want to take our state.

This post is part of our Summer 2018 issue of Connection, our quarterly newsletter. To read the whole newsletter, click here.

In response to the tragic shooting last month at their school, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida have inspired high school students across the country to take action. They are leading a movement to fight for gun safety measures that affect young people inside and outside of schools. Some students are learning for the first time that their voices matter and that they can affect public policy.These students join a long history of protest by young people in America. From the revolution through abolition and the civil rights movement, teenagers have often organized to change America for the better. Barbara Johns was 16 when she led her fellow African American high school students in a walkout to protest the inequality of segregated schools, one of the first sparks in a movement for change. Mary Beth Tinker was 13 when she wore a black armband to school in protest of the United States' involvement in Vietnam.

All Delaware schools are on notice: don’t infringe on your students’ first amendment right to religious freedom, or we will take action.

The ACLU is helping Gavin Grimm fight discriminatory policies against transgender people in Virginia. This comes after the U.S. Department of Justice said public schools are no longer obligated to allow transgender students to use the restroom that fits their gender identity.