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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In July 2020, federal officials issued an illegal rule that would siphon over $1 billion in emergency aid from public schools to private schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies filed a lawsuit challenging the rule issued by U.S. Secretary of Education...
Tennessee鈥檚 voucher program threatened to siphon hundreds of millions of tax dollars from Nashville and Memphis public schools to private schools, raising the specter of more budget cuts for already underfunded public schools. The 人兽性交 and its allies filed a...
In 2019, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission violated Florida鈥檚 open meetings laws, effectively denying high school students and youth advocates the right to speak before the commission, which was created to investigate system failures in the 2018 school shooting at...
Decades of research and experience have led to a consensus among mental health practitioners throughout the nation that intensive home- and community-based mental health services are much more effective and less expensive than institutionalizing children and youth who have ongoing mental health...
On behalf of six students at the Sophie B. Wright Charter School in Orleans Parish, La., the 人兽性交 sought an injunction in state court to halt disciplinary actions resulting from a senior prank. Following a water balloon fight that caused no serious injuries, the students were suspended for five...
In 2018, the Duval County School Board in Florida began hiring armed civilians, known as 鈥渟chool safety assistants,鈥� to patrol the district鈥檚 elementary schools. The program threatened the safety of thousands of students by opening the door for inadequately trained assistants 鈥� who are not law...
After the U.S. Department of Education failed to fully comply with public records requests that could shed light on the gun lobby鈥檚 possible role in the department not standing in the way of states and school districts using federal funds to arm educators, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the...
Florida鈥檚 Constitution Revision Commission, an entity created every 20 years to revise the state鈥檚 laws, attempted to place a constitutional amendment on the state鈥檚 2018 ballot that would have eliminated the duties of school boards to regulate public schools in their districts, including...
Mississippi has repeatedly violated a nearly 150-year-old, legally binding obligation to operate a 鈥渦niform system of free public schools鈥� for all children, an obligation placed on the state as a condition of rejoining the Union after the Civil War.
Mississippi enshrined this requirement...
