JUDY WOODRUFF:

Public schools are caught in the middle of a political debate over bathrooms. The Obama administration says restricting a transgender student's access to restrooms and locker rooms based on biological sex is discrimination and can be grounds for withholding funding.

But that directive has set off some angry reaction. Kentucky is one state where many leaders don't agree with the president. And we look at how one school in Louisville decided to act proactively before the bigger debate began.

Special correspondent Yasmeen Qureshi of Education Week has the story. It's part of our weekly education series, Making the Grade.