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Lawsuit Challenges Funding for NYC's Homosexual High School
$3.2 Million Grant a 'Wasteful Use of Tax Dollars,' Legal Group Says
By Jim Brown and Jody Brown
August 14, 2003
(AgapePress) - A lawsuit has been filed in New York to stop the nation's first homosexual high school from opening in September.
Harvey Milk School, a collaborative effort between The Hetrick-Martin Institute and the New York City Department of Education's Career Education Center Alternative High School Program, claims to be the nation's first accredited public high school designed to meet the needs of "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning" (LGBTQ) youth.
According to the New York Post, the school -- named after a homosexual San Francisco politician who was murdered in 1978 -- has operated for the past 20 years as a small alternative program with only two classrooms. In June, the school secured a $3.2 million capital expansion grant from the state DOE that will allow it to increase enrollment from 50 to 170 students.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and education officials want Harvey Milk School to be a model program to be duplicated around the country. But New York State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., and a mother of four are challenging the legitimacy of the school.
Mat Staver
On Wednesday, Liberty Counsel attorney Mat Staver filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court on their behalf. Staver says New York school officials have taken money away from poor, failing, and minority schools.
"This is outrageous, considering the poor educational status of the current New York school system," Staver says. "So what we are asking the court to do is to block any further funding for this school that is catering to sexual deviations where no heterosexuals are permitted -- and to then allow the funding to go back to the normal school system."
According to Staver, many New Yorkers and Americans are strongly opposed to the school. He explains that a provision in the Empire State allows taxpayers to challenge any unnecessary and inappropriate expenditures of funds.
"New York City officials robbed from the poor, under-funded minority schools to pay for a homosexual school," he says. "Rather than proving a 'model' to the nation, [those] officials have provided a blueprint of what not to do. This wasteful use of tax dollars must be stopped."
Staver says the situation clearly violates the constitutional liberties of New Yorkers who, under their state law, have a right to an equal education. According to a press release, the lawsuit claims the expenditure is an unlawful use of tax dollars to finance a LGBTQ school in light of the lack of funds for needy schools. The suit also points out that the establishment of a homosexual-only school violates the equal protection rights of school children attending poor, failing schools and under-funded public schools.
On Thursday morning, Staver will be asking the court to set an emergency schedule because school begins in a few weeks.
$3.2 Million Grant a 'Wasteful Use of Tax Dollars,' Legal Group Says
By Jim Brown and Jody Brown
August 14, 2003
(AgapePress) - A lawsuit has been filed in New York to stop the nation's first homosexual high school from opening in September.
Harvey Milk School, a collaborative effort between The Hetrick-Martin Institute and the New York City Department of Education's Career Education Center Alternative High School Program, claims to be the nation's first accredited public high school designed to meet the needs of "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning" (LGBTQ) youth.
According to the New York Post, the school -- named after a homosexual San Francisco politician who was murdered in 1978 -- has operated for the past 20 years as a small alternative program with only two classrooms. In June, the school secured a $3.2 million capital expansion grant from the state DOE that will allow it to increase enrollment from 50 to 170 students.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and education officials want Harvey Milk School to be a model program to be duplicated around the country. But New York State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., and a mother of four are challenging the legitimacy of the school.
Mat Staver
On Wednesday, Liberty Counsel attorney Mat Staver filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court on their behalf. Staver says New York school officials have taken money away from poor, failing, and minority schools.
"This is outrageous, considering the poor educational status of the current New York school system," Staver says. "So what we are asking the court to do is to block any further funding for this school that is catering to sexual deviations where no heterosexuals are permitted -- and to then allow the funding to go back to the normal school system."
According to Staver, many New Yorkers and Americans are strongly opposed to the school. He explains that a provision in the Empire State allows taxpayers to challenge any unnecessary and inappropriate expenditures of funds.
"New York City officials robbed from the poor, under-funded minority schools to pay for a homosexual school," he says. "Rather than proving a 'model' to the nation, [those] officials have provided a blueprint of what not to do. This wasteful use of tax dollars must be stopped."
Staver says the situation clearly violates the constitutional liberties of New Yorkers who, under their state law, have a right to an equal education. According to a press release, the lawsuit claims the expenditure is an unlawful use of tax dollars to finance a LGBTQ school in light of the lack of funds for needy schools. The suit also points out that the establishment of a homosexual-only school violates the equal protection rights of school children attending poor, failing schools and under-funded public schools.
On Thursday morning, Staver will be asking the court to set an emergency schedule because school begins in a few weeks.
