In a settlement reached earlier this week, an Oregon school has apologized for a policy that restricted what student dance team members and their families could post on social media.
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Minnesota student suspended for a tweet about a teacher sues school district, police chief
A student who was suspended from his high school for a sarcastic tweet filed a lawsuit against his Minnesota school district Tuesday.
Pennsylvania legislature considers bill to limit public records exemption for public universities
The Pennsylvania Senate is considering a bill that would require four public universities to disclose more under the state’s public records law.
Neshaminy principal meets with students after confiscating newspapers
Neshaminy High School’s principal questioned all 21 editors at The Playwickian this week asking who made the decision to print a newspaper that didn’t pass his prior review.
Yearbook vandalism cases abound as yearbook distribution season continues
Multiple cases of yearbook pranks are in the news this month as students around the cou...
Supreme Court knocks down barrier insulating unconstitutional statutes against challenge
Justice Clarence Thomas, who famously insists that young people have no more rights than houseplants, just rescued students from a potentially devastating ruling making it nearly impossible to challenge an unconstitutional restraint on speech.
In a 9-0 opinion authored by Thomas, the Supreme Court decided Monday that a would-be speaker can bring a First Amendment claim against a statute penalizing speech without having to wait to suffer the punishment.
The Court's unanimous opinion overturns an errant decision from the Cincinnati-based Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeal, which departed from First Amendment precedent in ruling that a speaker could challenge a restraint on speech only by incurring the punishment or proving that punishment was imminent.
Censored yearbook quotes raised questions of prior review at Tucson high school
School officials at a Tucson high school censored nearly 10 quotes in the yearbook with black stickers before distributing to students.
Formerly censored article published in New Jersey student newspaper after school board and principal give OK
After a three-month censorship battle, a student journalist’s article about a conflict between teachers and the superintendent was finally published in The Highland Fling today.
Neshaminy administrators confiscate newspapers printed by student editors without principal's approval
Neshaminy High School administrators confiscated the student newspaper’s final issue of the year Friday, after students printed the paper without administrative approval following renewed disagreement over the students’ ban on the word “Redskins.”
SPLC joins open-government leaders urging Congress to hold hearings on FERPA reform
Six leading open-government organizations, including the Student Press Law Center, called Wednesday for congressional hearings on the rampant abuse of the federal student privacy law, FERPA, which enables schools and colleges to conceal scandals by misclassifying government documents as “education records.”