February 3, 2014 Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction in Gender Discrimination Case A federal district court in Pennsylvania has issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the Line Mountain School District, a public school district located in…
January 17, 2014 Pulaski County Desegregation Settlement Approved Last fall, I wrote here that the Pulaski County school desegregation case was close to a potential settlement. That settlement received final approval from Judge…
December 16, 2013 Court Rejects First Amendment Arguments and Upholds Teacher’s Dismissal In 2012, Bryan Craig, a tenured guidance counselor and girls’ basketball coach at Rich Central High School outside of Chicago, self-published a book containing…
November 18, 2013 Desegregation Case Close to Settlement Last week, Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced that a potential settlement in the decades-long Pulaski County school desegregation lawsuit has been reached. Pursuant…
October 24, 2013 Supreme Court Leaves Open School Funding Claims With so much attention focused on last week’s teacher insurance special session, an important case handed down last Thursday from the Arkansas Supreme Court…
October 17, 2013 The 2013 Special Session Governor Beebe has called a special session of the Arkansas General Assembly to begin today at 3:00 p.m. for legislators to address the health…
October 9, 2013 Update on Teacher Health Insurance Last month, I broke down here why school employee health insurance is more expensive than that for general state employees and why school employees may…
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…
September 26, 2013 Arkansas Supreme Court Rejects Teacher Union Appeal Today, the Arkansas Supreme Court issued an opinion affirming a circuit court’s dismissal of the lawsuit filed by the Pulaski Association of Classroom Teachers (PACT)…
September 23, 2013 Some Arkansas Schools Allowed to Arm Teachers I wrote here last month about a recent Attorney General Opinion in which the AG said that school districts do not qualify under state law to…