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.
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PRESS RELEASE: SPLC hails progress toward reforming FERPA excesses
Following the Columbus Dispatch's revelation that collegeathletic departments routinely invoke federal "education privacy"laws to refuse to release airplane passenger manifests, complementary ticketlists and other non-educational documents, the Student Press Law Center isjoining leading Ohio elected officials in calling for reforms.
West Georgia administration asks budget committee to reconsider proposed cut to newspaper
Administration at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton have asked that the Student Activity Fee Budget Allocation Committee reconvene this summer to allow the West Georgian to represent its request for more funds after an initial proposal to cut the paper's budget.
Oregon State removes independent student newspaper's distribution bins from campus locations
The staff of an independent publication at Oregon State University says they are being censored by not being permitted to distribute across campus.
Investigation into theft of more than 1,200 student newspapers halts at UC Riverside
Staffers of University of California at Riverside's student newspaper remain disappointed after an investigation into the theft of 1,200 to 2,000 copies of the April 21 issue stalled.
June 2009 podcast: How FERPA helped universities keep open records secret
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Reporters Jill Riepenhoff and Todd Jones, of the Columbus Dispatch, discuss a recent project investigating universities' misuse of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to keep open records secret.
ACLU files suit against 2 Tenn. school districts for filtering pro-LGBT Web sites
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.
Former student considers suing high school over suspension for reference to racial slur
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.
Appellate court: School did not violate student's rights by punishing religious speech
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.
MSU student newspaper wins right to campus police records of 2006 assault
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.