Rachel Zegler has been cast as Maria in Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" movie. Out of 30,000 people to audition, the high school senior from New Jersey landed the coveted role. A few years ago, Zegler starred as the same character in a high school production.

Janet Mock, a writer living in New York, tells her story of growing up transsexual in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she was born male and transitioned from Charles to Janet during her freshman year of high school. Due to her adolescent transition, she was bullied, teased and taunted through the halls of h...

Heritage High School in Brentwood, CA wanted to show a little love for their awesome campus police officer. Here's a look at how they honored him with this DUDE. be nice Project. Watch more of this good stuff at dudebenice.com. Shot and edited by Kyle White!

In “For Forever” Evan makes up a story of a friendship that never existed to comfort Connor’s parents after he passed away. We can’t wait to see how they this number in the upcoming “Dear Evan Hansen” movie adaptation!

Hundreds of thousands of students, parents, teachers and their supporters took to the streets on March 24, 2018 in a mass show of force in favor of gun control and school safety. More than 800 marches across the U.S. and around the world took place in support of the main March For Our Lives rally in

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Students at Winter Park High and across Florida walked out of class Monday in protest of the Parental Rights in Education bill, aka the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. A video of hundreds of students gathered outside Winter Park High in Orlando has been making the rounds on social media. In it, the students c

This is a short summary of the 2011-2012 school year's work of The Equality Project. The Ohio Arts and Prep School is a charter school that has become a model to follow regarding equality, liberty and justice for all.

“I chose the song because back on Nov. 30, my brother and I were a part of the Oxford school shooting,” Swiss said. “When I sing it, I remember the good, I remember my community, my family, just the love, and I remember that it's all there for me, and it'll help me get to where I need to be.”

Eighteen-year-old Evan Young was supposed to be the 2015 class valedictorian of Twin Peaks Charter Academy High School in Longmont, Colorado. But his principal prevented him from giving his graduation speech after learning he would announce he is gay. Instead, two weeks later, Young got to give his