A federal district court in the District of Columbia has denied a request for a preliminary injunction sought by parents attempting to block the school district’s plan to close 15 of its schools.
Continue reading...The Chicago Teachers Union has filed two lawsuits, on behalf of parents and their special needs children, to try to stop the city from closing 53 elementary schools.
Continue reading...The Sixth Circuit has ruled that a Tennessee school district’s student assignment plan does not violate African-American students’ Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights.
Continue reading...A group of California parents and students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Compton school district alleging a pattern of abuse and racial profiling of Latinos by school police.
Continue reading...A Florida Appeals court has ruled that a college did not violate the state public records law by refusing to provide a professor with an unredacted copy of a student’s email complaining about the professor’s classroom behavior and teaching methods, because the email was protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
Continue reading...A Texas state court judge has ruled that cheerleaders at Kountze High School can display banners emblazoned with Bible verses at football games.
Continue reading...The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association is seeking to overturn state law that has allowed boys to play on girls’ high school sports teams for decades.
Continue reading...A federal judge in New York denied a request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the school district from disciplining students who refused to take standardized tests.
Continue reading...A group of male students at Driver Elementary School were suspended by Suffolk Public Schools officials for pointing pencils at each other and making shooting noises.
Continue reading...The Tenth Circuit has ruled that the parents of a disabled student were not required under the IDEA to exhaust their administrative remedies before bringing suit claiming physical abuse by staff and staff use of unapproved timeouts with their child. However, the Court concluded that the parents had failed on the merits of their claims, styled as a § 1983 action based on violation of the student’s Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process right, because the instances of alleged physical abuse and use of timeouts were not constitutional torts since the defendants’ behavior did not “shock the conscience” of the court.
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