by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | Oct 24, 2018 | Federal Guidance, Headline News, Legal Developments
In Espinoza v. San Benito Consolidated Independent School District, No. 17-40839, 2018 WL 5018491 (5th Cir. Oct. 12, 2018), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld the judgment in favor of the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District in a case...
by Sarah Andrews | Oct 2, 2018 | Federal Guidance, Legal Developments
The Fifth Circuit heard oral argument this week in a case that could cost Texas more than $33 million in federal money meant to serve students with disabilities. On January 17, 2017, the United States Department of Education (“Department”) issued a proposed...
by Sarah Andrews | Aug 20, 2018 | Federal Guidance, Legal Developments
Last week, a federal court upheld the Texas Campus Carry law, which allows professors to carry concealed weapons onto college campuses. The ruling was the latest update in a lawsuit filed in 2015 by several professors at the University of Texas at Austin who oppose...
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 | 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...
by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | Apr 5, 2018 | Federal Guidance, Legal Developments
The New York public school teacher filed suit against the city department of education, the school’s principal, and the school’s vice principal, claiming that her negative evaluations and subsequent termination were in retaliation for exercising her First...
