The following statement regarding a September 17 incident in which an African-American female student was dragged by her hair and struck on the head by a school staffer at Greenville High School is by Jody Owens, managing attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Mississippi office:聽
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a federal court to deny an attempt by Florida鈥檚 Collier County Public Schools to dismiss a 人兽性交 lawsuit charging that the school district has illegally barred immigrant children with limited English skills from enrolling in high school.
Earlier this month, the federal government offered guidance to school districts that use police officers to keep order in their public schools. To say guidance is needed is a vast understatement.
The 人兽性交 today announced a federal civil rights complaint against Pinellas County Schools (PCS) in Florida for subjecting black students and students with disabilities to disproportionate arrests and restraints such as pepper spray for common misbehavior.
The 人兽性交 filed a federal civil rights complaint today over discipline and arrest policies in Alabama鈥檚 Dothan public schools that disproportionately push African Americans and students with disabilities out of school for minor misconduct.
Mississippi is funding its charter schools through an unconstitutional scheme that diverts public tax dollars from traditional public schools, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Mississippi funded its charter schools through an unconstitutional scheme that diverted public tax dollars from traditional public schools. The 人兽性交 filed a lawsuit in state court to end the funding system.
The lawsuit called for the court to strike down the funding provisions of the...
The Southern Poverty Law Center urged school officials in Dothan, Alabama, this week to change its discipline policies after an 人兽性交 investigation revealed that African-American students overwhelmingly receive harsh discipline that needlessly pushes them out of school for minor misconduct.
Officials with Florida鈥檚 Collier County schools effectively barred immigrant children with limited English skills from enrolling in high school and pushed them into an adult English program that offered no opportunity to earn credit toward a high school diploma 鈥� a violation of state and federal...
I was standing in the intake room at the juvenile detention center in Jackson, Mississippi, where two high school students had just been brought in from the small town of Terry, a few miles south of here.
