by Sarah Andrews | Sep 6, 2018 | Special Education
In late August, Texas Education Agency officials tapped Justin Porter, formerly the TEA’s executive director of special populations, to serve as the agency’s new statewide director of special education. Porter will be the first person to hold this position...
by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | Aug 28, 2018 | Breaking News
When T.R. was a baby, he sustained massive brain damage from a tainted vaccine. Over a decade later, his guardian and trustee sued Keller Independent School District, where he was enrolled, for discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”)...
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 | Aug 16, 2018 | Headline News
The high school physical science teacher also served as a lunchroom supervisor, and in that role tried to maintain order and discourage student fights. While the school district generally instructed teachers to intervene in fights if they felt they could do so safely,...
by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | Aug 9, 2018 | Headline News
In Shackelford v. Bonham Indep. Sch. Dist., No. 4:18-CV-00035 (E.D. Tex. July 31, 2018), a federal court dismissed a breach of contract action filed by a former employee of Bonham ISD for the employee’s failure to exhaust administrative remedies through the...
by Jennifer Childress - Editor of the Legal Digest | Jul 8, 2018 | Headline News
Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote a letter to the Fort Worth Independent School District superintendent and board president, addressing parent complaints that they have been denied access to public records regarding FWISD’s human sexuality curriculum....
