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Discrimination is prejudicial treatment related to (or inappropriate consideration of) an individual's actual or perceived membership in a particular class, group or category, such as an individual's... more +

Iowa 2025 Legislative Session – Week 7

Dentons on 3/3/2025

Last week, Iowa Republicans fast-tracked legislation related to civil rights and gender identity in Iowa, and hundreds of protesters convened at the Capitol each day. New bills continued to be introduced ahead of the first...more

District Court Allows First Amendment and Due Process Claims to Proceed in Flynn v. Big Spring School District

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 2/25/2025

Flynn v. Big Spring Sch. Dist., No. 1:22-CV-00961, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168913, at *2 (M.D. Pa. Sep. 19, 2024) (District Court permits Plaintiffs who were regular attendants at school board meetings to move forward with...more

State of Tennessee v. Cardona: Implications of the Vacatur of the 2024 Title IX Regulations

BCLP on 1/17/2025

On April 19, 2024, the Department of Education released its final Title IX regulations regarding sexual discrimination in federally-funded education (the “2024 Title IX Rules”)....more

Public Dollars, Private Discrimination: Protecting LGBT Students from School Voucher Discrimination

Benesch on 9/26/2023

More than a dozen states operate school voucher programs, which allow parents to apply state tax dollars to their children’s private school tuition. Many schools that participate in voucher programs are affiliated with...more

New Collective Bargaining Agreement for Minneapolis Teachers Will Structure Layoffs by Race

FordHarrison on 8/18/2022

Executive Summary: Minneapolis public school teachers of color will have additional job protections this upcoming school year under a new contract allowing them to keep their jobs rather than white instructors with more...more

CHRO – A New Horizon For Students With Disabilities?

Pullman & Comley - School Law on 5/30/2017

As my colleague Rachel Ginsburg aptly foretold, Connecticut’s Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities [“CHRO”] has indicated an interest in involving itself with discrimination claims concerning the schools. A recent...more

District Court Finds Boys’ Basketball Haircut Policy Does Not Constitute Discrimination Or Infringe Student Rights

Franczek P.C. on 3/27/2013

In Hayden v. Greensburg Community School Corporation, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana found that a school’s haircut policy for the boys’ basketball team did not constitute gender discrimination,...more

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