Court denies district’s motion to end Mountain View lawsuit

Mountain View High School students hold up newspaper
Hanna Olson, Myesha Phukan and Renuka Mungee hold up a copy of The Oracle at Mountain View High School. Photo by Cate Graney/Verde Magazine

Former Oracle adviser Carla Gomez and student journalists Hanna Olson and Hayes Duenow allege the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District and Principal Kip Glazer violated California Education Code § 48907 — which limits censorship of student media — and state labor laws when Glazer pressured the students to change a story and then removed Gomez as adviser and eliminated a journalism class.

Lawsuit alleges California principal bullied, retaliated against student newspaper

Two California student journalists and a student media adviser have sued their district and administration, accusing them of “bullying, threatening and coerc[ing]” the student newspaper staff to “save face” and then retaliating by cutting a journalism class and removing the adviser.