Note: The press conference scheduled for March 7 was cancelled due to a scheduling issue. Stay tuned for more updates.
Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is expected to hold a press conference following the recent ruling which stated that Barbers Hill Independent School District did not violate the CROWN Act after disciplining a student for wearing his natural hair.
Elected officials, including Jackson Lee, Rep. Ron Reynolds, and Rep. Rhetta Andrews Bowers, have continued the fight back against the ruling, claiming that they wrote the bill after an identical incident at the exact same school nearly four years ago.
Back in 2023, Barbers Hil junior, Darryl George was told his hair, which he wears in locs, was against the district’s handbook policy.
Darryl and his family refused to cut his hair, which they say is always tucked away, in a neat style for class.
The family ultimately filed suit against the district, resulting in a response from the superintendent who says they are well within their rights to continue punishing the student.
After spending more than half of his junior year in in-school suspension, the family thought some relief would come from a federal judge last month.
Despite their hopefulness, the judge ruled in favor of Barbers Hill ISD.
At this time, it is unclear if Darryl has plans to cut his hair or if he will leave the district.
However, both Reynolds and Bowers said at a news conference last month that they will go back to the drawing board and tweak the act so that this will no longer be a persistent issue.
After this week’s Democratic party win in the Primary Election, Jackson Lee made her way back to Washington D.C., and will address this matter at 3 p.m.