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The teacher responded that it would provide less individualized attention to the students. [8] The Lemon Grove school board denied all of the suit's allegations and, asking school boards throughout the Southwest, insisted that the separate facility was designed for the benefit of the Mexican and Mexican American youth. [1]
According to eyewitness reports by MAS students, the books were confiscated by school officials in front of students. One student noted, "We were in shock... it was very heartbreaking to see that happening in the middle of class." [19] In March 2013, Curtis Acosta, and other teachers and students of the program took the issue to federal court.
within the Hispanic community is another necessary step in improving this group’s educational achievement. Hispanics encounter several barriers to college access. According to the Pew Center, only 53 percent of Hispanic high school graduates are at least “minimally qualified” for admission to a four-year college (PEW CENTER: 2004, 2).
Hazelwood School District et al. v. Kuhlmeier et al., 484 U.S. 260 (1988), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held, in a 5–3 decision, that student speech in a school-sponsored student newspaper at a public high school could be censored by school officials without a violation of First Amendment rights if the school's actions were "reasonably related" to a ...
The Chino Valley Unified School District is racially diverse and politically mixed. But its school board sees itself as a triumph of conservative politics, often focused on LGBTQ+ issues, in blue ...
The school board in Sherman voted unanimously Monday to reinstate the original show and cast after a meeting in which dozens criticized them and spoke in support the 17-year-old transgender boy ...
A classroom poster of banned words at Fremont-Mills Community School District was contested by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which argued that students' free speech rights ...
Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, 827 F.2d 684 (11th Cir. 1987), [1] was a lawsuit in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that the Mobile County Public School System could use textbooks which purportedly promoted "secular humanism", characterized by the complainants as a religion.