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Anti-bullying legislation

Index Anti-bullying legislation

Anti-bullying legislation is legislation enacted to help reduce and eliminate bullying. [1]

43 relations: Benigno Aquino III, Bisexuality, Bullying, California State Legislature, Computer, Defamation, Education and Inspections Act 2006, Electronics, Expulsion (education), Federal law, Garden State Equality, Georgia (U.S. state), Harassment, Homosexuality, Intentional infliction of emotional distress, It Gets Better Project, Lawsuit, Legislation, Lesbian, Matthew Shepard Foundation, Mobile phone, New Jersey, New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act, No Child Left Behind Act, Office for Civil Rights, Philippines, Plan International, Rutgers University, School bullying, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Stalking, Suicide, Suicide of Tyler Clementi, Suspension (punishment), Teacher, Teasing, The Trevor Project, Title IX, Transgender, United States, United States Department of Education, USA Today, Watchdog journalism.

Benigno Aquino III

Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino IIIQuezon, Manuel L..

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.

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Bullying

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate or aggressively dominate others.

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California State Legislature

The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California.

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Computer

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.

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Defamation

Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

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Education and Inspections Act 2006

The Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c 40) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Electronics

Electronics is the discipline dealing with the development and application of devices and systems involving the flow of electrons in a vacuum, in gaseous media, and in semiconductors.

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Expulsion (education)

Expulsion, permanent exclusion, withdrawing, or kicked out of school refers to the removal/banning of a student from a school system or university for an extensive period of time due to a student persistently violating that institution's rules, or for a single offense of appropriate severity in extreme cases.

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Federal law

Federal law is the body of law created by the federal government of a country.

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Garden State Equality

Garden State Equality is a statewide advocacy and education organization in the U.S. state of New Jersey that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, including same-sex marriage.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Harassment

Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Intentional infliction of emotional distress

Intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED; sometimes called the tort of outrage) is a common law tort that allows individuals to recover for severe emotional distress caused by another individual who intentionally or recklessly inflicted emotional distress by behaving in an "extreme and outrageous" way.

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It Gets Better Project

It Gets Better is an Internet-based 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in the United States by gay activist, author, media pundit, and journalist Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller on September 21, 2010, in response to the suicides of teenagers who were bullied because they were gay or because their peers suspected that they were gay.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit (or suit in law) is "a vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depending between two private persons in the courts of law." A lawsuit is any proceeding by a party or parties against another in a court of law.

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Legislation

Legislation (or "statutory law") is law which has been promulgated (or "enacted") by a legislature or other governing body or the process of making it.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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Matthew Shepard Foundation

The Matthew Shepard Foundation is an LGBT nonprofit organization, headquartered in Casper, Wyoming, which was founded in December 1998 by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their son, Matthew.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act

The New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act, also known as P.L. 2010, Chapter 122, is a policy created in 2011 by New Jersey legislature to combat bullying in public schools throughout the state.

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No Child Left Behind Act

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001(NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students.

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Office for Civil Rights

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Education that is primarily focused on enforcing civil rights laws prohibiting schools from engaging in discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or membership in patriotic youth organizations.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation which works in 71 countries across the world, in Africa, the Americas, and Asia to advance children’s rights and equality for girls.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.

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School bullying

School bullying is a type of bullying that occurs in any educational setting.

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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Pub.

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Stalking

Stalking is unwanted or repeated surveillance by an individual or group towards another person.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Suicide of Tyler Clementi

Tyler Clementi (December 19, 1991 – September 22, 2010) was an American student at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge at the age of 18, on September 22, 2010.

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Suspension (punishment)

Suspension is either paid or unpaid time away from the workplace as ordered by the employer in order for a workplace investigation to take place.

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Teacher

A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values.

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Teasing

Teasing has multiple meanings and uses.

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The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project is an American non-profit organization founded in 1998 focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.

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Title IX

Title IX is a federal civil rights law in the United States of America that was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972.

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Transgender

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of Education

The United States Department of Education (ED or DoED), also referred to as the ED for (the) Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Watchdog journalism

Watchdog journalism informs the public about goings-on in institutions and society, especially in circumstances where a significant portion of the public would demand changes in response.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-bullying_legislation

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