by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | May 30, 2018 | Legal Developments
That is the question in a California case in which two citizens sued on First Amendment grounds after board members blocked them from posting on the board members’ Facebook and Twitter accounts. The board members blocked the citizens after they posted negative...
by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | May 16, 2018 | Federal Guidance, Legal Developments
Greenwood Public School District (GPSD) in Mississippi hired Montrell Greene as superintendent in April 2013. Greene held a three-year term contract through June 2018, but was terminated effective January 4, 2016, after three members of the GPSD Board of Trustees...
by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | May 8, 2018 | Legal Developments, Texas School Law Blog
In Morath v. Lewis, No. 03-16-00603-CV, 2018 WL 1527875 (Tex. App. Mar. 29, 2018), the appeals court said, yes, and allowed a group of parents to proceed with their claim that the administration of the 2015-2016 STAAR exam violated their students’ rights. Chapter 39...
by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | Apr 18, 2018 | Legal Developments, Personnel
After Christy Williams was terminated from her position at the Tarrant County College District (TCCD), she filed suit for discrimination, failure to accommodate, and retaliation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Texas Commission on Human Rights...
by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | Apr 13, 2018 | Federal Guidance, Legal Developments
Transgender Student Presented Sufficient Evidence Of Harm Resulting From The District’s Bathroom Policy; U.S. Supreme Court Declines To Hear The Case The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by a Wisconsin school district involving a transgender...
