Subject: Peoria Unified School District

• Inside the Jury Box

  The people who judged Symington look back with certainty, compassion

  January 29, 1998

• Wizards of West Wood

  Exhibition goes against the grain with "a boy show"

  March 4, 1999

• ACLU Demands Peoria School District Allow Kid to Wear "Rainbows are Gay" Wristband

  The American Civil Liberties Board of Arizona is threatening action against the Peoria Unified School District after an eighth-grade student was prohibited from wearing a "Rainbows are Gay" wristband. The 14-year-old gay student was told to wear the wristband inside out or quit wearing it to school, says the demand letter by the ACLU. An official with the Peoria Unified School District tells New Times the district is still in spring break and that Superintendent Denton Sant

  March 17, 2009

• ACLU Says School District Agreed to Permit Student to Wear Gay-Pride Accessory; District Says Wristband Ban Never Existed

  The Peoria Unified School District has agreed "it will no longer prevent" a 14-year-old student from wearing a gay-pride wristband, the ACLU says today. The district, however, says it never agreed to any such thing -- because the student was never disallowed from wearing the accessory. Maggie Olney, spokeswoman for the district, says the ACLU's statement -- and the demand letter the civil-rights organization sent last month -- is based on inaccurate information. "We were pretty sh

  April 20, 2009