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...A Virginia family has filed suit in federal court seeking $8.3 million from the Appomattox County School Board and school employees as a result of a bus bullying incident.
Continue reading...The American Humanist Association (AHA) has filed suit against Northwest Rankin High School in Mississippi, challenging the school’s reportedly recent mandatory student assemblies that presented a Christian message as a violation of the separation of church and state.
Continue reading...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that a New Mexico school district’s decision to ban students from distributing rubber doll fetuses on campus as part of the students’ anti-abortion activities did not violate the students’ First Amendment free speech or free exercise of religion rights, or their Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights.
Continue reading...Legislative efforts to allow armed teachers have had mixed results.
Continue reading...A Title IX suit has been filed against a New York school district claiming the girls’ softball field is not comparable to the minor league stadium where the boys’ baseball team plays its games.
Continue reading...A Colorado jury has found Riddell, a football helmet manufacturer, negligent in failing to warn players about concussion dangers, in a lawsuit brought by the family of a severely injured high school football player.
Continue reading...New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is filing a lawsuit against the City of New York in state court, demanding the city release data on students who were sent to the emergency room because of behavioral problems at school. The suit charges most schools do not provide adequate mental health services and, instead, resort to 911 to deal with behavioral outburst.
Continue reading...Maryland lawmakers gave final approval to a bill restructuring the Prince George’s County school system. The bill, which now heads to the governor, gives Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D) more authority over the struggling system, including the power to select its new superintendent, appoint three members to the school board, and name the board chair and vice chair.
Continue reading...The Sixth Circuit ruled that a school district violated an out-of-district student’s due process rights when it removed him from school without providing him with a pre-expulsion hearing, and violated his search and seizure rights when a school administrator viewed text messages on his cell phone that had been properly confiscated.
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