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This banner, displayed on a public sidewalk outside a high school in Juneau, Alaska, in 2002, was interpreted as a pro-drug message.
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Symposium Revisits Landmark Student-Speech Cases

Key players on both sides come together to discuss pivotal U.S. Supreme Court cases involving students' free-speech rights. (October 2, 2012)

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Cases argued at the U.S. Supreme Court, while not directly school-related, could affect use of drug-sniffing dogs to fight student drug abuse.
November 6, 2012 - Education Week
The new measure would make such acts a summary offense or a misdemeanor, depending on the circumstances, rather than the felony child-pornography charge currently filed in those cases.
October 30, 2012 - Education Week
Lawmakers failed to agree on a bill to set up a commission looking into charter finance.
October 30, 2012 - Education Week
In 2009, three teenage girls at Greensburg Salem High School in Western Pennsylvania sent nude or seminude cellphone pictures of themselves to their boyfriends.
October 19, 2012 - McClatchy-Tribune
El Paso, Texas's ex-superintendent faces 42 months in prison for conspiring to boost students' scores on state tests.
October 16, 2012 - Education Week
Arguments in a case involving race-based admission policies at the University of Texas at Austin draw intense scrutiny.
October 15, 2012 - Education Week
But the governor vetoed another bill that would have made it harder for schools to suspend for "willful disobedience."
October 4, 2012 - Education Week
Key players on both sides come together to discuss pivotal U.S. Supreme Court cases involving students' free-speech rights.
October 2, 2012 - Education Week
But the governor vetoed another bill that would have made it harder for schools to suspend for 'willful disobedience.'
October 2, 2012 - Education Week
Communicating with parents is proving to be a big challenge for districts facing immigrant influxes for the first time.
October 2, 2012 - Education Week

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