With Coach Mike Lonergan’s termination from the George Washington University men’s basketball team now official, his legal recourse has been set into action: Reps for former GW Coach Mike Lonergan release statement saying he is filing suit against the school for wrongful termination. — Gene Wang (@gene_wang) September 18, 2016 Statement from Lonergan legal reps: “He will seek …
Seven Detroit schoolchildren, represented by a California public interest law firm, sued state officials Tuesday in what attorneys say is an unprecedented attempt to establish that literacy is a U.S. constitutional right. The suit, brought against Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and several education officials, claims the state has …
In August the Department of Justice announced they were suing Georgia for “unnecessarily segregating students with disabilities.” A similar lawsuit has been going on in Springfield since 2014. On June 27, 2014, a parent of a student at the Springfield Public Day School, a school specifically for children with disabilities, filed a federal class suit against the city of Springfield and the …
The state’s highest court will weigh Tuesday whether the Legislature violated the Kansas Constitution when it eliminated a job protection for teachers in 2014. The Kansas National Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, contends in a lawsuit that lawmakers violated the constitution’s “one subject rule” when it combined a school funding bill with a provision to eliminate a …
Several students and parents from Virginia High School are suing the district over transgender locker room policies. According to court documents, several families calling themselves Privacy Matters is suing for what they call inappropriate behavior by a transgender student in the girls locker room. The lawsuit that has been brought forward against the Virginia school district …
A lawsuit by a Tennessee high school basketball player who was raped and assaulted by teammates claims school officials knew athletes were being abused but did nothing. The victim, identified only as John Doe, was a freshman at Ooltewah High School in December when he was held down by two older players while a third forced a pool cue into his rectum, tearing his bladder. Last week, one of the …
The anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has filed yet another lawsuit against a high school on behalf of some anonymous plaintiffs for respecting the needs of a transgender student. The suit against Virginia High School in Virginia, Minnesota makes the same legal arguments as nearly identical suits filed in Illinois and North Carolina, but stands out for the way it demonizes the …
A pending lawsuit has tightened the lips of many Milton officials and prevented them from speaking about the district’s efforts to grapple with revelations about the school’s failure to respond properly to hazing. Officials from Milton High School Co-principal Anne Blake to board Vice Chairwoman Karen LaFond have declined interview requests from the …
The lawsuit asks the judiciary to fix the state’s “inequitable” education funding system. The court will hear oral arguments in the case Tuesday in Philadelphia. Badams and a small contingent from Erie plan to be in the courtroom or in an overflow area provided for the public.
A group of female students and their parents is suing the Virginia School District in Minnesota, saying the schools’ compliance with federal transgender locker room use laws led to serious distress. The federal lawsuit comes from Alliance Defending Freedom, on behalf of the group of students and parents (which has dubbed itself Privacy Matters). The complaint was posted online – you can read it …