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Teen Vogue Dress Code Blog

The Real Connection Between Dress Codes and Mask Mandates, A Court Will Decide Whether Schools Can Force Girls to Wear Skirts, Schools Are Enforcing Zoom Dress Codes, New York City Council Members Call for a Citywide Gender-Inclusive Dress Code, A Student Presented in Her Underwear to Protest a Teacher Who She Says Called Her Shorts Too Short, The Problem With Dressing to Put Men at Ease, This School Is Reportedly Making Students Send Pictures of Their Dresses Before Dances, and more.

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The Crown Act: Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair

National CROWN Day is a day of solidarity for the human rights of Black women, men, and children to wear their natural hair boldly, and proudly, without the fear of being discriminated against in school or the workplace. CROWN stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair. Created to commemorate the anniversary of the first signing of The CROWN Act into law in 2019 in California, we recognize July 3 as National CROWN Day.

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Model Student Dress Code

At the May 26, 2015 Portland Public Schools (PPS) Board of Education meeting, four Irvington School students and Oregon NOW president Lisa Frack testified on the need to review and revise current dress code policy (the students’ testimony begins at around :59; Lisa Frack’s testimony occurs at around 1:14)

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Is Your School’s Dress Code Outdated?

Many students and parents at a Florida high school say administrators are using outdated dress codes to police the way girls dress. Is your school’s policy fair?

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My name is Carrie Firestone and I'm a writer, teacher, and community leader. As a child, I spent a lot of time worrying about things like poverty, environmental destruction, and war. I eventually learned to channel that worry into action through teaching, storytelling, civic engagement, and project-based service work.I live in Connecticut with my husband Michael, my teen daughters, and our pit bull, Roxie. I love connecting with the world through travel, researching little pieces of fascinating history, and finding ways to inspire environmental stewardship and social justice work at the local level. I also love The Office, conga lines, hummingbirds, cold coffee, Iceland, the activist Inez Milholland, and BOOKS!

My name is Carrie Firestone and I'm a writer, teacher, and community leader. As a child, I spent a lot of time worrying about things like poverty, environmental destruction, and war. I eventually learned to channel that worry into action through teaching, storytelling, civic engagement, and project-based service work.I live in Connecticut with my husband Michael, my teen daughters, and our pit bull, Roxie. I love connecting with the world through travel, researching little pieces of fascinating history, and finding ways to inspire environmental stewardship and social justice work at the local level. I also love The Office, conga lines, hummingbirds, cold coffee, Iceland, the activist Inez Milholland, and BOOKS!