Delaware Valley board votes to revise gender‑identity policies after Department of Education letter; public speakers urge opposite courses

The Delaware Valley School District Board of Education voted to revise a set of district policies flagged in a recent U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) letter, a decision that drew lengthy public comment from students, parents and local advocates on both sides of the issue.

At a board meeting moderated by the board chair (the meeting presiding officer), attorney Brian Taylor, brought in at the board's request, told members the OCR communication “closes out the monitoring that we were under” under the older agreement and “gives us direction” on how the district should revise policies going forward. Taylor said the letter also offers a basis for past district actions taken under the earlier agreement and warned that a failure to align policies could result in a directed…