State-appointed managers will take over the El Paso Independent School District after the U.S. Department of Justice said it won’t oppose ousting the locally elected school board in the wake of a testing scandal at several of high schools.
Continue reading...Education Week reports that a major provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that affects hundreds of school districts, especially in the South, recently went before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Continue reading...The Times-Picayune reports that in following up on a complaint by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice will be investigating whether the Jefferson Parish school system discriminates against its Latino students.
Continue reading...The Associated Press reports in The Times-Picayune that the U.S. Department of Justice claims that the city of Meridian, Mississippi is operating a “school-to-prison pipeline” that incarcerates students for disciplinary infractions as minor as dress code violations with a policy that affects mostly black and disabled children.
Continue reading...The U.S. Department of Justice and the Allentown School District have filed a proposed joint consent decree in a Pennsylvania federal district court, containing provisions designed to address and prevent student-on-student sexual assault.
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.
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