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 Ticker reports that although a recent article in the Traverse City Central High School’s Black & Gold newspaper has upset some parents, school district officials say the controversy presents a learning opportunity for students who worked on the paper.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has issued a summary order ruling that a school district did not violate a middle school student’s First Amendment free speech rights when school officials prohibited a student, a class officer scheduled to speak during a “Moving-Up Ceremony,” from including religious references in her speech.
Continue reading...According to the Huffington Post, a 17-year old high school student in San Francisco has been suspended for a poem she wrote about the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Continue reading...The Associated Press (AP) reports in the Huffington Post that a 16-year-old student in Southern Michigan has been arrested after authorities said he threatened a teacher in an online posting, the latest clampdown on unruly students in the wake of the recent Connecticut school massacre.
Continue reading...A New York state appellate court has ruled that a school district’s decision to suspend a student for threatening to blow up a school was neither arbitrary and capricious, nor did it violate the student’s free speech rights.
Continue reading...The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has heard arguments in a suit stemming from a Pennsylvania school district barring a student from passing out invitations to a birthday party that took place at her church.
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 a report from the Student Press Law Center, Granite City High School Principal Jim Greenwald has suspended 10 students for comments they made on Twitter, and the principal says more suspensions could follow for students protesting the school’s decision.
Continue reading...According to The Express-Times, the Easton Area School District school board has tabled its vote on whether to lift its ban in toto or partially on the distribution of Boy Scout membership fliers in EASD schools.
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