October 1, 2013 Feds Issue Guidance on Race-Based Admissions Late last month, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice jointly…
July 26, 2013 Eighth Circuit Finds School Choice Case Moot In May, I wrote about the new school choice law and how it will be applied in the upcoming school year. In that post,…
July 2, 2013 The Latest on Affirmative Action in Higher Education Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded a race-based admissions case concerning the University of Texas to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, finding…
May 13, 2013 What’s Happening with School Choice? During the session, the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 1227, the Public School Choice Act of 2013, which allows for open school choice with two…
April 26, 2013 Kentucky Court Holds Miranda Warnings Required At School In an opinion handed down yesterday, N.C. v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Kentucky Supreme Court held that a student’s confession to an assistant principal…
March 27, 2013 School Vouchers Constitutional in Indiana Yesterday, the Indiana Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding the state’s private school voucher program, which some have called the broadest in the nation….
March 22, 2013 60 Years after Brown v. Board, Segregation Lingers in Mississippi This probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Just look around many small towns and big cities alike throughout the deep south, and…
February 8, 2013 Kansas Legislature Seeks Control Of School Funding Just last month, the Shawnee County District Court in Kansas ruled that the state was failing to meet its constitutional duty to adequately finance…
February 6, 2013 Texas Court Rules School Funding Unconstitutional A Texas district court in Austin ruled Monday that the state school funding system is inadequate, inequitable, and unconstitutional. The litigation began when more…
January 30, 2013 Tennessee Governor Endorses Vouchers Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam elaborated on his education initiatives in his State of the State speech Monday night to the Tennessee General Assembly. In…