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About Charles J. Russo
Charles J. Russo, M.Div., J.D., Ed.D., Joseph Panzer Chair of Education in the School of Education and Health Sciences (SEHS), Director of SEHS’s Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership, and Research Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Dayton, OH, specializes in issues involving education and the law with a special focus on religious freedom. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University of Australia School of Law, Sydney Campus. He can be reached at crusso1@udayton.edu. All views expressed herein are exclusively his own.
The Dispatch

Updated: California runs roughshod over parental rights

July 21, 2024 Charles J. Russo 17

On July 15, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom of California signed the radical progressive law Assembly Bill 2955 into effect. As I discussed in an earlier column, the deceptively named “Support Academic Futures and Educator Today’s Youth […]

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Supreme Court to weigh in on regulating puberty blockers, hormone therapy

July 8, 2024 Charles J. Russo 3

Recent litigation suggests that a return to sanity may be in the offing over puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors wanting “gender-affirming care” as they seek to transition. On June 24, 2024, shortly after South […]

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Proposed CA bill would severely undermine parental rights, authority

June 27, 2024 Charles J. Russo 2

In September 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 107 into law, making California a sanctuary state offering shelter to transgender children and their parents who leave jurisdictions restricting access to gender-affirming care to minors. The state senate has now approved […]

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Colorado federal court rebuffs anti-Catholic directive denying preschool education

June 17, 2024 Charles J. Russo 1

St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton v. Roy is another win, albeit a narrow one, for religious freedom in education. Administrators in two Catholic preschools, along with parishioner-parents of two children attending St. Mary preschool […]

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Updated: LACofFD member refuses to raise Pride Flag, or white flag, to gender ideology

June 5, 2024 Charles J. Russo 16

As recently reported by The Catholic News Agency, Catholic World Report, and other sites, Captain Jeffrey Little, a devout evangelical Christian, was a member of the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACofFD) for more than twenty-two years. Little […]

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Courts continue to undermine the basic rights of parents and educators

May 31, 2024 Charles J. Russo 6

Two recent cases over divergent issues in education involving human sexuality demonstrate how ideology continues to trump the rights of parents and educators. These disputes illustrate ongoing judicial indifference, if not hostility, to the religious […]

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Colorado law allows students to change “chosen names” without parental input

May 19, 2024 Charles J. Russo 9

After Colorado’s legislature recently turned parental rights on its ear in adopting House Bill 24-1039, Governor Jared S. Polis signed it into law on April 29, 2024. This bill requires officials in public schools, including […]

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A turn to sanity? SCOTUS upholds Idaho law limiting “transitioning”

May 7, 2024 Charles J. Russo 1

Amid ongoing controversy over “gender affirming” care for minors experiencing gender dysphoria wishing to transition, a divided Supreme Court recently largely upheld Idaho’s Vulnerable Child Protection Act (VCPA). The VCPA, applicable to children and vulnerable adults, bans […]

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Anti-religious bigotry raises its ugly head at elementary school near Seattle

April 17, 2024 Charles J. Russo 31

The recent example of overt hostility, even bigotry, toward students who are Christian occurred in Creekside Elementary School in Sammamish, Washington, about twenty miles east of Seattle. This controversy, it’s worth noting, is playing out […]

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Creative 303 redux: Another win for religious freedom

April 8, 2024 Charles J. Russo 7

On June 30, 2023, in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a major win for free speech, the Supreme Court reasoned that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission could not enforce the state’s Anti-Discrimination Act to compel a […]

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