CALIFORNIA -- Students at the East Union High School in Manteca got a first-hand lesson in freedom of expression when the principal decided to stand by a student journalist after an editorial she wrote sparked protest among her peers because of its anti-gay stance.
Nichole Sanchez, editor of the Lance, wrote an editorial in January that complained about television programming that she found offensive.
TEXAS -- A high school sophomore who claims his school superintendent squelched his First Amendment rights filed a lawsuit last month against the superintendent in federal court.
Justin Latimer, a 16-year-old student at Crosbyton High School, claimed Superintendent Larry Morris verbally berated him and prohibited him from writing any letters to a local newspaper without prior permission.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors is again offering high school teachers and newspaper advisers the opportunity to improve their skills and learn about the First Amendment rights of their students in a two-week training program this summer.
New advisers as well as those who would like to update their knowledge are invited to apply for the ASNE High School Journalism Institute.
PENNSYLVANIA -- Typically, any press is good press for emerging Internet-based projects. For the Carbon County Vocational-Technical High School students behind an online newspaper, however, increased media attention has led to problems with the school's administration.
Principal Paul Caputo recently blocked school computers from accessing thebabbitt.com, home of students James Curry and Conrad Flynn's muckraker The Babbitt.
Libraries at Castleton State College and the University of Vermont were among 1,300 across the country that recently destroyed an obscure document held in their collections after the federal government ordered them to do so.
Federal officials said the document, "Source Area Characteristics for Large Public Surface Water Supplies," was a focus of national security concerns after the Sept.
A state appellate court acted to defend the public interest when it ruled on Feb. 12 that a school board must release its evaluation of a former superintendent.
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit unanimously upheld a previous state circuit court decision holding that the public interest in an evaluation made of former Rhinelander Superintendent Robb W.
Federal authorities abruptly released a California teen-ager on Feb. 14 who they had claimed only days earlier was the owner and operator of an anarchist Web site that contained bomb-making instructions.
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The University of Louisiana at Monroe professor who created an anonymous Web site critical of the school's administration will remain anonymous for at least a little while longer.
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The saga of the 2000-01 Florida A&M University yearbook, still yet to be distributed, may be close to a resolution.
At a Jan.
Sex, a hot topic among teens, sparked an incendiary reaction around the Wenatchee community.
Parents in Wenatchee, Wash., were angered by an article in the student newspaper about the proper use of a condom, which included a drawing similar to those inside condom boxes of a condom being put on some fingers.