A federal judge has allowed a black Barbers Hill ISD student disciplined over his hair style to continue his case against the district, according to the student’s attorney.

An attorney for a Black high school student in Texas who was punished for nearly all of his junior year in high school over his hairstyle says he's left his school district rather than face the same punishment for another year.

A 130-page appeal has been filed in an attempt to overturn a court’s decision that backs up a Barbers Hill Independent School District policy, prohibiting a student from wearing his hair in a natural style on campus.

Darryl George was kept out of his regular classes for most of the 2023-2024 school year at Barbers Hill High School. The school said his dreadlocks fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violated the district’s dress code. George spent that time out of his classes in in-school suspension or at an off-campus disciplinary program.

A federal judge has dismissed most of the claims in a lawsuit filed by a Black high school student who was punished by a Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle.

At least one school district, Tolar ISD in North Texas, told the ACLU it would update its policies to comply with the CROWN Act.

Darryl George lost the legal battle against Barber Hills ISD but is taking the fight back to the courts.

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.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee will host a news conference Friday morning to discuss the violation of the Crown Act after a Barbers Hill high school student was repeatedly disciplined for his hairstyle choice.

After a short trial, a Texas judge ruled that Barbers Hill school officials are not violating a new state law prohibiting hair discrimination.

The trial surrounding a Barbers Hill student disciplined for his hairstyle is scheduled to go before a federal judge this Thursday.

In a test of Texas’ new CROWN Act, which prohibits discrimination based on hairstyles, a judge ruled that the Barbers Hill school district can enforce a ban on certain male hairstyles.

A judge has ruled that a Black high school student’s monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate a new state law prohibiting race-based hair discrimination.

Community leaders and civil rights activists are holding a protest this Wednesday ahead of the trial for a Barbers Hill student who has repeatedly been disciplined for his hairstyle choice.

The trial surrounding a Barbers Hill student disciplined for his hairstyle is scheduled to go before a federal judge this Thursday.

A judge has ordered that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change his hairstyle.

On Wednesday, Chambers County Judge Chap B. Cain III issued a trial date in the case of Darryl George and the Barbers Hill Independent School District.

The family of a Barbers Hill High School student is speaking out just days after the district’s superintendent announced that the teen will continue facing disciplinary measures over his hairstyle.

A Texas high school student has missed nearly half of his junior year in the classroom after being disciplined by leaders in his school district for his hairstyle.

A Texas high school Black student has been disciplined for months for refusing to change his hairstyle.

In wake of the controversy surrounding a teen at Barbers Hill High School who was suspended a second time for refusing to change his hairstyle, KPRC 2 is shedding light on the importance of natural hairstyles and the effects these disciplinary actions may have on people of color.

A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a monthslong standoff over a dress code policy the teen’s family calls discriminatory.

A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a monthslong standoff over a dress code policy the teen’s family calls discriminatory.

An 18-year-old Barbers Hill High School student who was disciplined for his natural hairstyle is back in in-school suspension being sent to an alternative school for over a month.

For more than a month, Darryl George, a Black high school student in Texas, spent each school day sitting by himself in punishment over his hairstyle.

A family’s fight to have their son return to class at Barbers Hill High School after being suspended over his hair is ramping up.

A Black student who spent more than a month on in-school suspension over his dreadlocks has been told he will be removed from his Texas high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday.

Darryl has been in In-school suspension since Aug. 31 due to his hairstyle. Darryl has dreadlocks that he and his family said are normally put up in a neat fashion, as pictured below.

The family of a Black high school student in Texas has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general over being suspended by his school district for his hairstyle.

The battle continues at Barbers Hill High School between a family that claims their student is being discriminated against because of his hairstyle, and the school district telling them they are just enforcing the rules.

The debate over whether a Black high school student in Texas should be serving in-school suspension for wearing twisted dreadlocks to class has intensified as the student’s family and his school district both took legal action.

The family says he was suspended the same week the Texas CROWN Act went into effect.

A Black high school student in Texas has been punished with an in-school suspension over his hairstyle for over two weeks, his mother said.