A 167-year-old statute requires trans people to publish their old and new names in a newspaper. Families and advocates worry ...

A Brevard teacher lost her job after calling a student by their chosen name without parental consent, according to the ...

Hundreds of sex offenders are exploiting a legal ‘loophole’ which allows ... of sex offenders to play the system by changing their name every year. ‘The public are being kept in the dark ...

A parent at Satellite High School in Satellite Beach, Florida, reported the teacher and complained that she “had been referring to a student by a name other than their legal name,” a Brevard ...

But this violated a Florida legislation that requires parents to sign off on their students being referred to by names other than their legal name — including both nicknames and chosen names that may ...

THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SAYS A PARENT REACHED OUT AND REPORTED A TEACHER THAT WAS REFERRING TO A STUDENT BY A NAME OTHER THAN THE STUDENT’S LEGAL NAME, WITHOUT THE PARENT’S PERMISSION. IN A ...

(CNN) — A Florida high school teacher’s community is rallying behind her after the school district chose not to renew her teaching contract because she called a student by their preferred name ...

Satellite students support Melissa Calhoun, a teacher whose contract was not renewed after she used a student's chosen name ...

The student's parents cited a piece of Florida legislation that requires teachers to call students only by their legal name or by a name signed off on by the parents, including in the case of ...

A Florida teacher, Melissa Calhoun, was fired for using a student's preferred name instead of their legal name, violating state law HB 1069. The law, which requires parental consent for any ...

A Florida high school teacher is set to lose her job after allegedly addressing a student by a name other than their legal one, according to Brevard Public Schools. This incident seems to be the ...