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...According to a WSBT TV report in the South Bend Tribune, Kimberly Hester, a teacher’s aide at Frank Squires Elementary in Cassopolis, Michigan, is in a legal battle with Lewis Cass Intermediate School District (LCISD) for suspending her from her position after refusing to give the district access to her Facebook page. Hester says she became a [...]
Continue reading...According to the Palm Beach Post, a national study ranked Palm Beach County No. 1 among 18 large, urban school districts in frequency of suspensions of black male middle school students. The study, published last month by the Southern Poverty Law Center, reviewed statistics from the year 2006, finding that the school district suspended 53% of its black male middle school students at least once in that year. However, Palm Beach disputes that figure, saying it was 38.3% percent, but acknowledges that black males in middle school have been suspended at higher rates than white students.
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