California teachers and parents challenging a policy barring educators from informing parents about their students’ gender identities can pursue their civil rights claims against state education officials as a class.
California State Board of Education members and the state’s public instruction superintendent argued that the lack of any statewide policy made class treatment inapposite. But “whether such a policy persists” is a question for a later stage, and individual local school districts “all must march to the beat of the State Defendants’ drums,” the US District Court for the Southern District of California said in an order docketed Thursday, certifying …