By Leigh E. Dalton | October 6, 2023
Who really gets to decide whether a student has access to a book during their school career? Should it be parents? Should it be school administrators? Should it be school board members? Should it be an inherent right of the students themselves? How should book banning decisions be made and on what basis?
7 minute read
By Charles Toutant | October 5, 2023
"We believe the court was correct in ruling that under the terms of the statute, this wildly inappropriate language should not be shared with students," said school district attorney John G. Geppert Jr. said.
5 minute read
By Law Journal Editorial Board | October 1, 2023
NJPP recommends that the legislative direct the Joint Committee on Public Schools to hold hearings on adjusting the basic school funding formula. We second the motion.
2 minute read
By Marianna Wharry | September 29, 2023
The suit was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
4 minute read
By Marianna Wharry | September 26, 2023
"Today's opinion is a victory for Mackenzie and for student survivors across the country," said Alexandra Brodsky, a staff attorney at Public Justice in Washington D.C., who argued the case before the en banc court. "Gender violence has grave effects on students' access to education. For that reason, the civil rights law Title IX requires schools to address known abuse. And as the Ninth Circuit explained today, a school's power to stop violence—and its responsibility to do so—doesn't stop at the campus boundary."
5 minute read
By Ashling A. Ehrhardt, Sydney Smith Forquer and Allison Wisniewski | September 25, 2023
The informal resolution process is a powerful tool that gives parties a say in the outcome. It is student-centered and trauma-informed and saves expenses, time and resources, reducing stress for those involved.
10 minute read
By Michael Kenny | September 20, 2023
By striking down affirmative action, the court has provided an opening for certain groups to challenge both public and private diversity, equity and inclusion programs and initiatives (Perkins Coie and Morrison Foerster are defendants in such lawsuits).
4 minute read
By Law Journal Editorial Board | September 17, 2023
We do not know the best solution for the public school children in Lakewood and like-situated districts. That is what the Appellate panel directed the commissioner to address, and she ought to get on with it.
3 minute read
By Allison Dunn | September 13, 2023
"[A]s appellees have now conceded, there is no qualitative difference between online instruction and in-person instruction. They are the same, we charge the same, it's the same instruction," argued OSU's counsel, John R. Gall, a senior partner at Squire Patton Boggs in Columbus.
6 minute read
By Colleen Murphy | September 12, 2023
"'Because of' and 'on account of' both incorporate the traditional standard of but-for causation. Under that standard, one event can have multiple but-for causes," Justice Rachel Wainer Apter wrote for the court.
5 minute read
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