ACLU files complaint over Malden school’s policy on braids
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint with the state education department Monday against a Malden charter school that has disciplined black and biracial students who wear hairstyles that violate the school’s dress code. Separately, state officials expressed concern about the rule, pledging to meet with school administrators.
The hair policy at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School is discriminatory and “appears to be especially harmful to female students of color and it has been enforced in a disparate manner against them,” according to the complaint filed by the ACLU with the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
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