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December 08, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. – In a 9-8 decision yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied Mississippi state officials’ request for rehearing in Williams v. Reeves after a 3-member panel of the court ruled in April that...
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October 08, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (October 8, 2020): Today, Juvenile Law Center, °Ä²Ê¿ª½±, and Education Law Center-PA released the report Credit Overdue: How States Can Mitigate Academic Credit Transfer Problems for Youth in...
September 30, 2020
NATIONAL – The Protecting Our Students in Schools Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives today by Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-District 4) and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-District 1). If passed, the...
September 28, 2020
Plaintiffs in NAACP v. DeVos reached an important and final victory on September 25 when U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos notified state education officials that she will not appeal court rulings invalidating a U.S...
September 17, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Even though voter turnout among young people during the 2018 U.S. midterm election was the highest it had been in decades, only about 35 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted in the...
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This is a time of crisis for public schools. States and municipalities are facing huge budget shortfalls due to reduced tax revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the cost-cutting measures that are sure to follow will hit our public schools hard.
In July 2020, federal officials issued an illegal rule that would siphon over $1 billion in emergency aid from public schools to private schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± and its allies filed a lawsuit challenging the rule issued by U.S. Secretary of Education...
