The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a school district did not violate a student’s constitutional rights by prohibiting her from wearing a T-shirt depicting the Confederate flag and other protest shirts in school.
Continue reading...The Associated Press reports on Newser.com that officials in a Connecticut school district have backed down in a fight over free speech rights, when it decided to permit a student to wear a T-shirt bearing an anti-gay message.
Continue reading...The Daily Standard reports that a group of Celina City Schools students say its unfair that administrators will not allow them to wear T-shirts with pro-gay sentiments while others are allowed to wear political shirts and pro-life messages.
Continue reading...The Associated Press reports in the San Jose Mercury News that the Jurupa Unified School District in Southern California is allowing some Sikh students to carry an article of their faith, a dagger-like blade called a kirpan.
Continue reading...The Salt Lake Tribune reports that an administrator at Westridge Elementary School in Provo, Utah, confiscated a cancer awareness bracelet from a student that contained the message “I ♥ boobies” and was deemed too risque for the classroom.
Continue reading...According to the Associated Press reported in The Washington Post, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit will weigh an eastern Pennsylvania school district’s efforts to ban breast-cancer fundraising bracelets that say “I ♥ boobies!”
Continue reading...According to the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit in federal court against Fort Wayne Community Schools after an assistant principal confiscated a female student’s “I ♥ boobies” bracelet.
Continue reading...The Dayton Daily News reports that Wayne Local Schools (WLS) has been ordered to pay $20,000 in damages and court costs to a Maverick Couch, a student who was twice prevented from displaying the message “Jesus is not a Homophobe” on a T-shirt in school.
Continue reading...The Birmingham News reports that the Southern Poverty Law Center has given the Jefferson County school board until June 15th to change its policy banning boys from wearing earrings or face a federal lawsuit.
Continue reading...According to a Dayton Daily News report in The Chicago Tribune, Wayne Local Schools (WLS) has proposed a settlement to Maverick Couch in response to his lawsuit for prohibiting him from wearing a “Jesus is Not a Homophobe” T-shirt.
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