Belinda Sanchez, Proviso East High School Student, Allowed To Wear Tux To Prom After Challenging School Policy

Teen Challenges High School Policy, Can Wear Tux To Prom

Story courtesy of the Windy City Times

CHICAGO -- Little less than a year after a young Mississippi woman captured national headlines successfully challenging a local school policy that denied her ability to wear a tuxedo to a public high school prom, a Chicago area high school senior also successfully overturned such a discriminatory policy.

In a letter sent to Proviso Township School District on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, lawyers for Belinda Sanchez asked the school to reverse its decision to deny Ms. Sanchez the opportunity to attend the prom in a tuxedo, explaining that its decision violated Ms. Sanchez's constitutional rights.

The Proviso East High School prom is scheduled for later this month. Ms. Sanchez lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois were informed late yesterday in a letter from the school's Superintendent that her request has now been granted.

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