Education

Sec. 16-56. Unlawful education practices.
It shall be an unlawful education practice:

(a) For any school, educational institution or facility:
(1) To discriminate or to directly or indirectly fail or refuse to admit or grant entrance, or provide, furnish, or make available, equal educational services, materials, or opportunities to any person because of race or color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, age, or country of ancestral origin;

(2) To discriminate or to directly or indirectly print or publish or cause to be printed or published, circulated, broadcast, issued, used, displayed, posted, or mailed any written, printed or painted or oral communication, notice or advertisement relating to education indicating any preference, denial, limitation, specification, qualification, practice, or discrimination based on race or color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, age, or country of ancestral origin;

(3) To establish, announce, or follow, a pattern, practice, or policy of denying, excluding or limiting educational services, materials, or opportunities to any group because of the race or color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, age, or country of ancestral origin of such group;

(b) For any person to discriminate in any manner against any individual or deny that individual because he or she has opposed any practice forbidden by this article or because he or she has made a charge, testified, or assisted in any manner in any investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this article;

(c) For any person, whether or not acting for monetary gain, to aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce the doing of any act declared by this section to be an unlawful education practice, or to obstruct or prevent any person from complying with the provision of this article, or any regulation or order issued thereunder, or to attempt directly or indirectly to commit any act declared by this section to be an unlawful education practice.

(Ord. 1979, ch. 79-1, § 6, 1-22-79; Ord. 1985, ch. 85-77, § 6, 9-5-85, Ord. No. 1995, ch. 95-20, 8-17-95)