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Florida school board chooses not to adopt policy banning advocacy groups as classroom guest speakers

According to The Tampa Tribune, Hillsborough County School Board (HCSB) members have decided they do not need to adopt any new guidelines covering guest speakers in the classroom because the district has policies already in place. The decision, which came without a vote, was a blow to those who have rallied against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for weeks at multiple school board meetings.

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African-American student accuses teacher of telling him to recite Langston Hughes poem “blacker”

An African-American high school student in Fairfax County, Virginia claims that his English teacher interrupted his recitation of the Langston Hughes poem “Ballad of the Landlord” to instruct him to read the poem “blacker.”

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Federal appellate court rules school district did not violate teacher’s constitutional rights by ordering removal of classroom banners with religious references

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a California school district did not violate a high school teacher’s free speech or equal protection rights, or the Establishment Clause, when the school’s principal ordered the teacher to remove banners displayed in his classroom that contained religious references.

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New York City teacher suspended for allowing students to use vulgar terms during AIDS discussion settles suit

ccording to the New York Daily News, Faith Kramer, the teacher who let middle school students use sexually explicit language in a classroom discussion on AIDS, has agreed to a settlement in her lawsuit against the city.

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Teacher’s use of sexually explicit and slang terms in sex ed class was not constitutionally protected speech

A federal district court in New York has ruled that a teacher failed to state a valid First Amendment free speech claim based on being disciplined for eliciting sexually explicit and slang terms from students in the course of teaching a state-mandated HIV/AIDS lesson. The court held, however, that the teacher had stated a valid procedural [...]

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