http://www.blawgrepublic.com/cat/Education-Law/ EDUCATION LAW NEWS Condesa Inc. Blawg Republic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/C6MP0BXcXEM/court_revives_title_ix_challen.html A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit that claims girls basketball at an Indiana high school receives less desirable scheduling than the boys team, in violation of Title IX. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, in Chicago, ruled unanimously that http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/KYoJmDqUYtc/suit_revived_over_counseling_s.html A federal appeals court has revived the lawsuit of a Michigan graduate student who was expelled from her program in school counseling in a dispute over her refusal to treat gay clients. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in Cincinnati, ruled unanimously http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/Sh5dVYkylYo/appeals_court_tosses_some_frau.html A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of a former Maryland school district chief for "honest-services fraud," but upheld counts involving evidence and witness tampering and obstruction of justice. The decision came in a case involving Andre J. Hornsby, who was chief executiv http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/OWLNTX4BwGc/justices_decline_to_revisit_sp.html The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned aside an appeal from an Oregon family seeking reimbursement for the private placement of a child in a school charging tuition of $5,200 per month. The case is noteworthy because the justices in 2009 used it to decide that, in principle, the main fed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/7UTJkrCKE9I/high_court_backs_police_in_sch.html The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that police officers who entered a home in search of guns amid an investigation of a rumored threat of school violence were immune from a family's lawsuit alleging a constitutional violation. The justices issued an unsigned opinion withou http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/KiQtHWhFmRQ/justices_decline_to_weigh_pray.html The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up the issue of prayers at school board meetings. The justices declined to hear the appeal of a school board in Delaware, which had its practice of reciting prayers before its public board meetings struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/JM4UCMPOcdM/supreme_court_declines_cases_o.html The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up major appeals involving student free speech rights on the Internet. One appeal encompassed two cases decided in June 2011 by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, in Philadelphia. The appeal in Blue Mountain S http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/HMzmP0Fd7bU/judge_orders_removal_of_prayer.html A federal judge this week ordered the immediate removal of a large prayer mural addressed to "Our Heavenly Father" in the auditorium of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/qYvmXzuvS6c/supreme_court_backs_church_in.html The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that the Constitution's religion clauses bar lawsuits against churches by their ministers, and it held that a Lutheran school teacher could not sue her church employer for discrimination because she was effectively a minister. "The mem http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/XuhX45AYmX0/justices_weigh_public-sector_u.html The U.S. Supreme Court appeared inclined on Tuesday to rule against public-employee unions by requiring that they provide nonmembers with additional opportunities to object to special assessments or dues increases to fund political goals. But members of the court also are weighing whether http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/d8BTpF7iGAY/justices_decline_appeals_on_sp.html The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear appeals in cases involving special education and Title IX. In one case, the justices declined to hear the appeal of a school district that was ordered to provide compensatory tutoring because it failed to identify a student's disability. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/McRdaSfVm0c/radio_host_wins_round_over_sch.html A South Carolina radio talk show host has won a round in an ongoing battle with the state school administrators' group over a Freedom of Information Act request he filed. But the host appears to be losing the war. A federal appeals court this week ruled against the South Carolina Associat http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/XkihbUJJU00/robert_l_carter_pivotal_in_des.html Robert L. Carter, who as a civil rights lawyer argued the Brown v. Board of Education case both at the trial court in Topeka, Kan., and in the U.S. Supreme Court, died this week in New York City. He was 94. Carter, who was a retired federal district judge in Manhattan, d http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/o0yzvgXl3pU/court_upholds_race-conscious_s.html A federal appeals court has upheld a Pennsylvania school district's attendance-zone plan that took neighborhood racial demographics into account but did not assign individual students based on race. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, in Philadelphia, u http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheSchoolLawBlog/~3/v7_AHKRpbes/school_district_eyes_supreme_c.html A case about Indian trust land granted review this week by the U.S. Supreme Court is being watched closely by a Michigan school district. In fact, the Wayland Union school district, in southwest Michigan, joined a