DALLAS — A federal judge temporarily blocked three school districts, including Plano Independent School District, from implementing parts of a new Texas law restricting diversity, equity and inclusion programming in public schools last week.

Judge Charles Eskridge with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston barred the districts — Houston, Katy and Plano ISDs — on Friday from enforcing portions of Senate Bill 12. The law, which took effect Sept. 1, prohibits public schools from sponsoring gender and sexuality alliance clubs and rolls back programming related to race, gender and sexual orientation.

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