High Court Upholds Broad Student Drug Testing Policy
Washington
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld drug testing of students involved in a range of extracurricular activities, expanding the potential for such scrutiny beyond athletics.
Ruling 5-4 on June 27 in a case from a small district in Oklahoma, the court held that testing students in such activities as choir and Future Farmers of America is not an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment.
The ruling in Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 v. Earls (Case No. 01-332) greatly expands the scope of allowable student drug testing. In its 1995 decision in Vernonia School District v. Acton , the court upheld testing of students...
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