Equal Educational Opportunities
(Board Policy 7-10)

Equal educational and extracurricular opportunities shall be available for all students without regard to color, race, nationality, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, order of protection status, the status of being unhoused, actual or potential marital or parental status, including pregnancy, citizenship status, immigration status, military status; unfavorable discharge from military service; association with a person or group with one or more of the aforementioned actual or perceived characteristic, or any other distinguishing characteristic. Further, the District will not knowingly enter into agreements with any entity or any individual that discriminates against students on the basis of sex or any other protected status, except that the District remains viewpoint neutral when granting access to school facilities under School Board policy 8-20, Use of School Facilities by Organizations. Any student may file a discrimination grievance by using Board policy 2-260, The Uniform Grievance Procedure. The District’s Title IX Coordinator is: Mirah Anti (manti@dist113.org)
 

Equal Access Act
Any group officially affiliated with the Scouts BSA or officially affiliated with any other Title 36 youth group that requests to conduct a meeting in the covered entity's designated open forum or limited public form must be given equal access to school premises or facilities to conduct meetings. 

• Sex Equity
  No student shall, based on sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity be denied equal access to programs, activities, services, or benefits or be limited in the exercise of any right, privilege, advantage, or denied equal access to educational and extracurricular programs and activities.
  Any student may file a sex equity complaint by using Board policy 2-260, The Uniform Grievance Procedure. A student may appeal the Board’s resolution of the complaint to the Regional Superintendent (pursuant to 105 ILCS 5/3-10) and, thereafter, to the State Superintendent of Education (pursuant to 105 ILCS 5/2-3.8).

Education of Unhoused Children

Each child of an unhoused individual and each unhoused youth has equal access to the same free, appropriate public education as provided to other children and youths. An unhoused child is defined as provided in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and the Ill. Education for Homeless Children Act. The Superintendent or designee shall act as or appoint a Liaison for Unhoused Children to coordinate this policy’s implementation. An unhoused child may attend the District school that the child attended when permanently housed or in which the child was last enrolled. An unhoused child living in any District school’s attendance area may attend that school. The Superintendent or designee shall review and revise rules or procedures that may act as barriers to the enrollment of unhoused children and youths. In reviewing and revising such procedures, consideration shall be given to issues concerning transportation, immunization, residency, birth certificates, school records and other documentation, and guardianship. Transportation shall be provided in accordance with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and State law. The Superintendent or designee shall give special attention to ensuring the enrollment and attendance of unhoused children and youths who are not currently attending school. If a child is denied enrollment or transportation under this policy, the Liaison for unhoused Children shall immediately refer the child or the child’s parent/guardian to the ombudsperson appointed by the Regional Superintendent and provide the child or the child’s parent/guardian with a written explanation for the denial. Whenever a child and the child’s parent/guardian who initially share the housing of another person due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar hardship continue to share the housing, the Liaison for unhoused Children shall, after the passage of 18 months and annually thereafter, conduct a review as to whether such hardship continues to exist in accordance with State law.