The Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) discriminates against foster children and youth with mental impairments by unnecessarily segregating them in restrictive, psychiatric residential treatment facilities and by denying them an opportunity to grow up in loving homes and community-based...
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After Florida teacher Amy Donofrio refused a request by school officials to remove a Black Lives Matter flag hanging outside her high school classroom, she was reassigned to nonteaching duties and banned from her school鈥檚 campus. The Southern Poverty Law Center and its co-counsel,聽Scott聽鈥⒙燱agner...
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December 08, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. 鈥� In a 9-8 decision yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied Mississippi state officials鈥� request for rehearing in Williams v. Reeves after a 3-member panel of the court ruled in April that...
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October 08, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (October 8, 2020): Today, Juvenile Law Center, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Education Law Center-PA released the report Credit Overdue: How States Can Mitigate Academic Credit Transfer Problems for Youth in...
September 30, 2020
NATIONAL 鈥� The Protecting Our Students in Schools Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives today by Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-District 4) and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-District 1). If passed, the...
