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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Johanna Chisholm

North Carolina charter school’s skirt requirement violated female students’ rights, court rules

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A North Carolina charter school’s dress code policy requiring female students to wear skirts has been deemed unconstitutional.

In a 10-6 ruling on Tuesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth District in Richmond, Virginia, determined that the Charter Day School in Leland, which had argued that its policy was intended to preserve the institution’s “chivalry”, violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

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