DELAWARE VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT, PA — Due to the public's renewed interest in the 2016 Office of Civil Rights resolution with the Delaware Valley School District (DVSD), DVSD Board President Pam Lutfy scheduled a special meeting on April 16 at 6 p.m. in the learning commons of the DVSD high school.

The goal of this meeting is to provide an overview of the 2016 Resolution and to allow the school board to hear from the public on this particular issue. Questions from the public on this particular issue must be submitted to schoolboard@dvsd.org by Wednesday, April 9 and the board will answer them as best it can during the meeting. Members of the public that wish to speak at the meeting will have up to five minutes to address the board. The work session on April 10 will be devoted to regularly scheduled school board business."

DVSD signed the OCR agreement in March 2016, following a lawsuit from a transgender student, and an OCR investigation which found DVSD violated that student’s Title IX rights by subjecting her to different treatment on the basis of sex.

The agreement required DVSD to work with a consultant and revise its policies around discrimination, including to “provide all students, including transgender students and other students who do not conform to sex stereotypes, equal access to all such programs and activities in a manner that does not discriminate based on sex,” according to the text of the agreement.