According to The Oregonian, Tim King and Norm Donohoe, who ran a chain of taxpayer-funded charter schools across small-town Oregon from their headquarters in Clackamas, have scammed the state out of $17 million and must repay that plus $2.7 million more, the state said in a recent court filing.
Continue reading...According to an Associated Press report in The Oregonian, Oregon State Representative Dennis Richardson believes the Connecticut school shooting is another “heartbreaking failure” of school personnel to ensure protection, and is a reminder that teachers should be allowed to carry guns in the classroom.
Continue reading...According to the Albany Democrat-Herald, a jury has returned a verdict finding that the Harrisburg School District was not liable in a federal civil rights lawsuit for the peer harassment and bullying of a former student who suffers from Tourette’s syndrome.
Continue reading...The Albany Democrat-Herald reports that Sweet Home School District’s school board is considering a proposed policy meant to tighten controls on after-hours communication between teachers and students that has prompted free speech concerns.
Continue reading...The Oregonian reports that the fathers of two Seaside High School softball players have filed a class action lawsuit against Seaside School District 10, alleging that their daughters, and more than 250 other female students, have been denied and deterred from fully participating in team sports at the high school.
Continue reading...In his report to an Oregon federal district court, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke has recommended the motions for summary judgment filed by the school district and private contractor should be denied, and that a school bus driver should be allowed to proceed to trial with his Section 1983 First Amendment claim regarding his suspension and termination for refusing to remove a Confederate flag from display on his vehicle while parked at work.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act does not provide a cause of action for nominal damages.
Continue reading...The Oregonian reports that Beaverton School District has won a lawsuit brought by the parent of a middle school student who was subjected to peer bullying.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (CA, OR, WA. AZ, MT, ID, NV, AK, HI, GU, MP) has ruled that that Oregon’s general statute of limitations, rather than the state’s specialized child abuse statute, governs a former student’s federal civil rights claims brought under § 1983 , and that federal, not state, law governs accrual of his claims.
Continue reading...A federal district court magistrate in Oregon has ruled that a bus driver, who was employed by a private contractor that provides transportation services for a school district, failed to state a valid retaliation claim under the federal constitution’s Equal Protection Clause based his discharge after refusing to remove to a Confederate flag from display on his personal vehicle while parked in the contractor’s lot. As a result, the magistrate recommended that the district court dismiss the claim with prejudice.
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