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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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May 23, 2011 - McClatchy-Tribune
Denver Public Schools and its teachers union could need help from the courts to settle a dispute over how long veteran teachers who have lost their jobs must continue to be paid.
May 23, 2011 - Education Week
Georgia's high court rules a panel set up to create and oversee charter schools is unconstitutional.
May 20, 2011 - Education Week
Prosecutors say that a Norwalk, Conn., woman illegally used her baby sitter's address to enroll her son in a better-performing school system than the one he was legally obligated to attend.
April 29, 2011 - Education Week
For decades, annual contract talks between the two sides have been held behind closed doors—standard practice in most Colorado school districts. But this year, a conservative group and others began publicly calling for the talks to be open.
April 20, 2011 - Education Week
Teachers' unions and political advocates hope legal and ballot challenges will overturn newly enacted restrictions on collective bargaining by public employees.
April 7, 2011 | Updated: March 24, 2012 - Education Week
The U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-4 against taxpayers who sought to overturn an Arizona program aiding religious schools.
April 4, 2011 - Education Week
Oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to suggest a split on the rights of students interrogated at school.
March 29, 2011 - Education Week
Digital advancements are forcing policymakers to rethink policies addressing student use of mobile devices, online textbooks, and social networking sites for learning.
March 14, 2011 - Education Week
The firing of a Philadelphia teacher was put on hold Thursday after the teachers' union went to federal court, arguing that she was being targeted for speaking out against a plan to convert her school to a charter.
March 11, 2011 - Education Week

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