News Briefs
The federal No Child Left Behind Act does not provide a private right to sue over its parental-notice and tutoring provisions, a federal appeals court has ruled.
December 1, 2008
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered that a trial be held to decide whether the state can eliminate the special funding formula that has funneled billions in extra aid to its poorest urban school districts.
December 1, 2008
Four current and former high school students have sued the Puyallup, Wash., school district, claiming they were harassed after their names were used in a story about their sex lives in their school’s student newspaper.
November 17, 2008
The Oregon Department of Education must pay $3.5 million to an online testing company the state sued last year after schools were forced to resort to paper-and-pencil tests.
November 17, 2008
The broad net cast by the Maryland State Police as part of a surveillance operation was designed to track suspected terrorists, but instead snared a number of activists—including an educator who gleaned some firsthand lessons for students in his civics class.
November 11, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to hear the appeal of a Minnesota family in a case about the burden of proof in legal disputes over special education.
October 28, 2008
A case about a small religious sect’s efforts to display a monument with its principles in a city park has implications for free-speech and establishment-of-religion questions in public schools.
November 18, 2008
Educators expect few significant changes to schooling from the anti-affirmative action passed by voters.
November 14, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court last week heard arguments in a case that is the latest challenge to one of the ways teachers’ unions amass their political war chests.
November 10, 2008
The courts play a big part in many aspects of public education in the United States, but it wasn’t always that way, according to experts at a conference held last week.
October 20, 2008
High court to decide issue of liability for lawsuits that is of interest to educators.
October 15, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments over alleged harassment in a Tennessee school district’s central office, and lets stands a lower-court ruling on schoolchildren’s exposure to books promoting tolerance for gay marriage.
October 9, 2008
State officials ask to have rulings set aside in landmark Abbott v. Burke case; foes say that new funding formula would shortchange poor urban districts.
October 6, 2008
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