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Joshua Dunn
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Digital Discipline
We aren’t sure if you can say that
Desegregation Redux
Desegregation cases affecting hundreds of districts haven’t been concluded.
Can Carrots Become Sticks?
Court knows coercion when it sees it
Title IX at Trial
If you schedule it, will they come?
Door Still Closed
Alabama plaintiffs lose federal school finance challenge
Mickey Mouse Strikes Back
Voucher wars heat up in Colorado
Budget Buster
Teachers sue to protect pensions
Trouble in Kansas
Parents in a wealthy district sue to pay more taxes
Thou Shalt Not Say Jesus
Do elementary school students have free-speech rights?
The Ninth Circuit v. Reality
Highly qualified teachers don’t grow on trees
Educational Providence
New York courts close one door, federal money opens another
2+2=Litigation
New front opens in the math wars
No Federal Case
Court says charter school is not a state actor
Strange Bedfellows
Students find unexpected ally in the Christian Right
Supreme Modesty
From strip searches to school funding, the Court treads lightly
Timeout
Schools Win in Court
Language Barriers
Arizonans battle federal court order to spend more
Home Schoolers Strike Back
California case centers on parents' rights
Court Jousters
Plaintiffs exploit weaknesses in NCLB
Free and Appropriate
Parent's wealth muddies special-education tuition case
Doubtful Jurisprudence
Court offers schools little guidance
Courts and Choice
Testing the constitutionality of charters and vouchers
The Enforcers
Parents may gain right to sue over NCLB
Adequately Fatigued
Court rulings disappoint plaintiffs
Judging Money
When courts decide how to spend taxpayer dollars
Affirmative Action Docketed
The Supreme Court takes up race-based school assignment
Virtual Legality
Unions and Home Schoolers Attack Internet Education
Florida Grows a Lemon
Florida’s supreme court is no stranger to political warfare. Before the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore in favor of George W. Bush, the Florida court had ruled in favor of Al Gore. And the same court played a crucial role in the state’s extraction of an $11.3 billion settlement from the tobacco industry [...]
A Setback in Dover
Last rites for Intelligent Design
Blog Posts/Multimedia
Limiting What Students Can Say Using School Computers
Courts are undoubtedly going to be called upon to draw lines which will inevitably have some appearance of arbitrariness.
Alabama School Choice Decision as Theater of the Absurd
The AEA and other Alabama choice opponents had better pray for a miracle, or prepare for the country’s newest tax credit program to become law.
Union Contracts: Stronger than Acts of God
Few good things came out of Hurricane Katrina but one has been the transformation of the New Orleans’ school system.
School Finance Litigation: With defeats like these, who needs victories?
Last Thursday, Washington’s Supreme Court ruled that the state legislature needs to spend more on education. At first glance, the ruling looks like significant victory for the plaintiffs, but a close reading of the ruling shows that looks can be deceiving.
Public Advocates Knows Best?
In our latest Legal Beat column, Martha Derthick and I discuss a case, Renee v. Duncan, where the 9th Circuit held that teachers seeking alternative certification could not count as highly qualified under No Child Left Behind.
South Carolina Leading the Pack?
South Carolina is on the cusp of leapfrogging most of the competition by passing one of the most ambitious pieces of school choice legislation in the country.
Money and Good Intentions Won’t Fix Our Schools
Last week the media reported the apparently shocking news that the Kansas City, Missouri School District school board voted 5-4 to close nearly half of its schools, 26 of 61 schools in the district. But those familiar with the district were not surprised. The real question is not why the school board has decided to close so many schools but why it took them so long.
Is Arne Duncan’s new civil rights crusade unconstitutional?
On Monday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that his department will expand its efforts in civil rights enforcement. Like everything this sounds fantastic in the abstract. Who after all publicly declares that they oppose protecting civil rights? The details, though, paint a more troublesome picture.
Christian Law Firms Are Leading Defenders of Free Speech in Schools
In “Strange Bedfellows,” Martha Derthick and I wrote on a case out of Texas, Palmer v. Waxahachie Independent School District, that brought two unusual groups together on the same side: supporters of John Edwards and Christian conservatives.
Legal Beat Update
The new issue of Education Next includes a “legal beat” column by Martha Derthick and myself that discusses three important rulings from the Supreme Court’s last term. “Receiving almost no attention but potentially of utmost significance,” we wrote, “was Horne v. Flores, a case about English-language learning in which the court divided narrowly along ideological lines, with Kennedy joining the five-member majority.” Anyone doubting the potential significance of the Supreme Court’s decision in Horne v. Flores should consider two recent developments in Florida and Colorado.
Colorado Supreme Court Jumps into the Abyss of School Finance
Colorado’s state Supreme Court defied national trends on Monday, handing down a decision in Lobato v. State that thrusts the judiciary into the middle of the state’s educational finance disputes.
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