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Category: Education Law
The School Law Blog - September 03, 2010
With the school year opening in much of the nation, educators will soon be facing two of their traditional challenges: how to raise funds for school operations and how to avoid legal challenges.
A recent federal district court decision may actually help schools with both of those issues,
The School Law Blog - September 02, 2010
A group of Ethiopian and Somali refugee students who allegedly received inadequate educational services from an alternative high school in Minneapolis are not entitled to relief under federal and state civil rights laws, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Thirteen students who attended Ab
The School Law Blog - August 24, 2010
A federal appeals court has reinstated an age-discrimination lawsuit filed by a school district administrator who was demoted amid questions from her superiors about when she was going to retire.
Judy F. Jones was the 59-year-old executive director of curriculum and instruction for the Ok
The School Law Blog - August 18, 2010
A state education commissioner's decision to alter an advisory curriculum guide on genocide and human rights in response to political pressure did not violated the First Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The case involves
The School Law Blog - August 04, 2010
Proponents of the 2008 California constitutional amendment that bars same-sex marriage played on fears that schools would be required to teach children that gay marriage was OK if the ballot inititiave was defeated, a federal judge concludes as part of his ruling Wednesday striking down the measu
The School Law Blog - August 02, 2010
A Texas school district violated the religious rights of an American Indian student when it sought to restrict how he wore his long, braided hair, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The Needville Independent School District near Houston has a dress code requiring boys to keep their hair s
The School Law Blog - August 02, 2010
The Senate Judiciary Committee today delayed a vote on Elena Kagan's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court for one week, under a request from Republicans.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the committee, made the request under the panel's rules, and Chairman Patrick
The School Law Blog - August 02, 2010
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of Connecticut's lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act, although the court made clear that the state should be able to pursue some of its claims administratively against the U.S. Department of Education.
A three-judge panel of th
The School Law Blog - August 02, 2010
Teachers' personal e-mails on school district computers are not public records under Wisconsin law and need not be disclosed to records requesters, the state's highest court has ruled.
"There is a distinction between allowing public oversight of employees' use of public resources and invo
The School Law Blog - August 02, 2010
The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, with one Republican breaking ranks to vote yes.
The panel voted 13-6 to send the nomination to the Senate floor. President Barack Obama nominated Kagan, 50, to succeed Justice John Paul
The School Law Blog - August 02, 2010
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today said his department would push for policies promoting equity in the schools for poor and minority students, in particular announcing plans for an Equity and Excellence Commission to promote fiscal equity among schools.
"In so many ways, our re
The School Law Blog - August 02, 2010
A federal appeals court next week will take up a challenge to the University of Texas at Austin's consideration of race in the admissions process for some undergraduate applicants.
The case presents the first major showdown after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the limited use of race in co
The School Law Blog - July 06, 2010
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of the Texas Education Agency's science-curriculum director for violating the agency's policy requiring "neutrality" on curriculum deliberations by sending e-mail critical of creationism.
Christina Castillo Comer, the science director for T
The School Law Blog - July 02, 2010
Elena Kagan advanced views in two cases involving the consideration of race in K-12 education that are "out of step" with color-blind principles and could lead to "racial engineering," a witness told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Peter N. Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Civil
The School Law Blog - June 30, 2010
Questions relating to education have been few and far between at Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing on her nomination to the Supreme Court. Today, though, two Democratic senators broached the topic of the U.S. Constitution's religion clauses.
Since so much education litigation occurs und
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