The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association is seeking to overturn state law that has allowed boys to play on girls’ high school sports teams for decades.
Continue reading...The Chambersburg Area School District’s school board has voted 5-4 to reverse its decision and provide the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) with the same rights and privileges as any other noncurricular club at the school.
Continue reading...The Express-Times reports that a federal district court judge has allowed a student wrongful death suit against Bethlehem Area School District to proceed.
Continue reading...A federal district court has denied a Pennsylvania school district’s motion to dismiss a suit brought by the Freedom From Religion Foundation challenging the constitutionality of a Ten Commandments display on the premises of a public junior high school.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that a Pennsylvania elementary school student is entitled to a preliminary injunction barring a school district from enforcing its materials distribution policy that prohibits the student from distributing to classmates flyers produced by a local church promoting a Christmas party.
Continue reading...According to The Morning Call, Lehigh County Judge J. Brian Johnson has dismissed former Allentown School District administrator Jim Dotterer’s suit challenging his demotion from assistant principal to a teaching position.
Continue reading...As reported on Fox43.com, following a 5-4 vote by the local school board to refuse to recognize a Gay-Straight Alliance club at Chambersburg Area Senior High School, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and Equality Pennsylvania sent a letter to the Chambersburg Area School District officials saying the Board is in violation of the federal Equal Access Act.
Continue reading...According to the Lebanon Daily News, the Lebanon school board unanimously agreed to settle a lawsuit involving the district’s truancy policy and accusations that it excessively fined parents of minority students with multiple unexcused absences.
Continue reading...The Morning Call reports that the Palisades School Board has adopted a policy that would allow strip searches of students when other students and staff are believed to be in danger.
Continue reading...The Patriot News reports that the Child Evangelism Fellowship of Dauphin County Inc. has filed suit in federal court against the Harrisburg School District, alleging that HSD’s demand for CEF to pay an annual rental fee of $1,200 to hold a Bible-based after-school program is not only excessive, but discriminatory.
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