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Author: Brian Stewart

Ore. school board decides not to change school publication policy after parents call for greater oversight

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June 16, 2009December 4, 2018 Brian Stewart

Student journalists at Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, Ore., will not see much of a change to their publications code after the school board rejected pleas from parents to place greater restrictions on the student publication.

Tagged Lake Oswego, Lakeridge High School, newspacer, Ore.

Students ask school board to decide if principal was right in not allowing story to print

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June 10, 2009December 4, 2018 Brian Stewart

Two Arizona high school students are appealing an administrator's decision that the student newspaper could not print an article about the district's teacher assessment testing.

Tagged Ariz., Phoenix, the Challenge, Thunderbird High School

Va. Tech files lawsuit against W. Va. State Police over 1998 student disappearance records

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June 10, 2009December 4, 2018 Brian Stewart

The student newspaper at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va., is suing the West Virginia State Police in an effort to obtain documents about a student who went missing over a decade ago.

Tagged blacksburg, Collegiate Times, Va., Virginia Tech University

Oregon State removes independent student newspaper's distribution bins from campus locations

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June 5, 2009December 4, 2018 Brian Stewart

The staff of an independent publication at Oregon State University says they are being censored by not being permitted to distribute across campus.

Tagged Oregon State University, The Daily Barometer, The Liberty

Former student considers suing high school over suspension for reference to racial slur

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June 3, 2009September 5, 2018 Brian Stewart

An Idaho teenager is planning to sue his school district for suspending him after a reference to a racial slur was printed in the student newspaper.

Tagged chieftan, Hazelwood, Idaho, pocatello, Pocatello High School

ACLU files suit against 2 Tenn. school districts for filtering pro-LGBT Web sites

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June 3, 2009December 4, 2018 Brian Stewart

One Tennessee school district being sued for blocking access to Web sites with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender content while allowing students to view anti-gay sites has unfiltered the content this week.

Tagged Fulton High School, Tennessee

Appellate court: School did not violate student's rights by punishing religious speech

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June 3, 2009December 4, 2018 Brian Stewart

A federal appeals court ruled a student's First Amendment rights were not violated when she was punished for mentioning Jesus in her graduation speech.

Tagged Colo., Lewis-Palmer High School, monument

MSU student newspaper wins right to campus police records of 2006 assault

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May 28, 2009September 5, 2018 Brian Stewart

A judge ruled Michigan State University officials must turn over select police files to its student newspaper after a three-year legal battle that might not be over.

Tagged Michigan, Michigan State University, State News

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