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一 | After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday.Darryl George, 18, is a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu and has been suspended since Aug. 31. He will be sent to EPIC, an alternative school program, from Oct. 12 through Nov. 29 for “failure to comply” with multiple campus and classroom regulations, the principal said in a Wednesday letter provided to The Associated Press by the family.Principal Lance Murphy wrote that George has repeatedly violated the district's “previously communicated standards of student conduct." The letter also says that George will be allowed to return to regular classroom instruction on Nov. 30 but will not be allowed to return to his high school's campus until then unless he's there to discuss his conduct with school administrators.Barbers Hill Independent School District prohibits male students from having hair extending below the eyebrows, ear lobes or top of a T-shirt collar, according to the student handbook. Additionally, hair on all students must be clean, well-groomed, geometrical and not an unnatural color or variation. The school does not require uniforms.George's mother, Darresha George, and the family's attorney deny the teenager's hairstyle violates the dress code. The family last month filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency and a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles. The family alleges George's suspension and subsequent discipline violate the state’s CROWN Act, which took effect Sept. 1. The law, an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination and bars employers and schools from penalizing people because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including Afros, braids, dreadlocks, twists or Bantu knots. A federal version passed in the U.S. House last year, but was not successful in the Senate.The school district also filed a lawsuit in state district court asking a judge to clarify whether its dress code restrictions limiting student hair length for boys violates the CROWN Act. The lawsuit was filed in Chambers County, east of Houston.George’s school previously clashed with two other Black male students over the dress code. Barbers Hill officials told cousins De’Andre Arnold and Kaden Bradford they had to cut their dreadlocks in 2020. Their families sued the district in May 2020, and a federal judge later ruled the district’s hair policy was discriminatory. Their pending case helped spur Texas lawmakers to approve the state’s CROWN Act. Both students withdrew from the school, with Bradford returning after the judge’s ruling. ___AP journalist Juan Lozano contributed to this report from Houston.___The Associated Press education team receives support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The AP is solely responsible for all content.。昨天下午，西湖白堤，被风吹坏的雨伞装满一辆环卫车。台风登陆前后，杭州风雨交加。据杭州市气象台统计，8月8日8点至9日18 点全市面雨量78毫米，主城区面雨量101毫米，最大富阳126毫米，萧山120毫米、滨江113毫米、西湖110毫米、余杭106毫米、上城96毫米、临安96毫米、桐庐94毫米、钱塘88毫米、拱墅84毫米、临平71毫米、建德47毫米、淳安36毫米，1511个站点累计降水超过50毫米（占比73.3%）、731个站点累计降水超过100毫米（占比35.4%），2个站点累计降水超过250毫米，最大累计雨量临安天目山镇东关村321.8毫米，最大小时雨强萧山区进化镇祝家村54.1毫米。昨天下午，记者在西湖边看到，不少游客还在风雨中游玩。14点，断桥和白堤上，景区保安一边巡逻劝导，一边用扩音喇叭提醒游客，远离湖边、树下和堤岸周边，建议尽快返程。

二 | 白堤上风大雨急，游客们只能顶风冒雨前行，一些人手中的雨伞被风吹得变形。记者看到，一辆环卫三轮车上，放着一堆从垃圾箱和路边清理收集来的雨伞，装满整整一车，几乎都是被风吹坏后丢弃的。

三 | 环卫工人说，光白堤这段路，一天就能清理上百把。16点，西湖景区对白堤、苏堤区域实施临时管控。断桥入口设置了围栏，禁止游客进入，景区民警也劝离还在白堤上的游客。台风来势凶猛，西湖景区各部门闻风而动，随时出击，应对各种突发险情。昨天15点半，白堤一株柳树的一段枝干被风吹断，景区园林工人随即赶到，迅速处置完毕。16点多，记者途经西湖边北山街时，看到新新饭店公交站附近，一棵10多米高的悬铃木发生倒伏，拦在马路中间，对交通造成影响。