The Sixth Circuit has ruled that a Tennessee school district’s student assignment plan does not violate African-American students’ Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights.
Continue reading...The Sixth Circuit ruled that a school district violated an out-of-district student’s due process rights when it removed him from school without providing him with a pre-expulsion hearing, and violated his search and seizure rights when a school administrator viewed text messages on his cell phone that had been properly confiscated.
Continue reading...A Bergen County Superior Court has ruled that a school district had not failed to provide disabled students receiving special education services with reasonable accommodations in violation of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination when the district assigned those students to one school, rather than assigning each to their neighborhood school.
Continue reading...According to a report in The Washington Post, a federal court has dismissed a 17-year lawsuit over the transportation of D.C. special education students, giving the city final approval to control its own school buses.
Continue reading...In a 5-2 decision, the Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that Jefferson County Public Schools’ student assignment plan does not violate a state statute providing for where parents may enroll their child, but not where they may necessarily attend school.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has vacated a Kentucky federal district court’s decision granting summary judgment to a school board, but affirmed summary judgment in favor of the district’s superintendent, in a suit by a diabetic student claiming the board’s refusal to allow him to attend his neighborhood school violated Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.
Continue reading...As reported in The Washington Post, Virginia State Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne has denied two Leesburg communities’ petition challenging the Loudoun County School Board’s rezoning plan, which altered boundaries so that more than 600 students were assigned to the new Frederick Douglass Elementary School.
Continue reading...Nashville Public Radio reports on wpln.org that the Nashville, Tennessee chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans to appeal a state court ruling that Nashville Metro Schools’ attendance zones do not intentionally discriminate against African-American students.
Continue reading...According to the Birmingham News, the Fort Payne City School District has reached a settlement in a nearly 50-year-old school desegregation lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Continue reading...The Tennessean reports that a class action suit charging that Metro Nashville school district’s redistricting plan catered to white families and rezoned black students out of affluent, higher-achieving schools is set to go to trial this week.
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