Law & Courts
Education news, analysis, and opinion about court cases, lawsuits, and regulations affecting schools.
See also: Supreme Court, Court Cases, First Amendment, Student Rights
Law & Courts Another Court Lets the Trump Admin. Keep Teacher-Training Grants FrozenA federal appeals court overturned a lower court's order that had temporarily restored millions of dollars in terminated grant funds.
Law & Courts Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin. to End Teacher-Prep GrantsThe high court, over three justices' dissent, granted the administration's request to remove a lower court's block on ending the grants.
Law & Courts Groups Sue Over Trump's Cuts to Education Department Research ArmThis suit seeks the restoration of Institute of Education Sciences staff and contracts abruptly canceled by the Trump administration.
Law & Courts Supreme Court Appears Unlikely to Strike Down School E-Rate ProgramThe Supreme Court seems unlikely to strike down the E-rate program, though some justices questioned its funding structure and oversight.
Law & Courts Tracker See All the Lawsuits Filed Over Trump's Education PoliciesHere’s a look at the Trump education policies that have drawn litigation, and where the complaints stand.
Law & Courts Opinion Can States Bar Religious Charter Schools? The Supreme Court Will Soon DecideRecent U.S. Supreme Court decisions suggest that bans on faith-based charter schools may violate the Free Exercise Clause.
Law & Courts NEA, AFT Sue to Block Trump’s Education Department DismantlingThe nation’s two largest teachers’ unions are asking federal courts to halt efforts to close the U.S. Department of Education.
Law & Courts Idaho Can Restrict Transgender Students’ Restroom Use, Appeals Court RulesA federal appeals court panel declined to block an Idaho law requiring students to use restrooms that align with their "biological sex."
Law & Courts Schools Fear Funding Loss as Supreme Court Weighs E-Rate CaseThe justices hear arguments next week in a challenge to the funding structure of the $4 billion program to connect schools to the internet.
Law & Courts Religious Charters, LGBTQ+ Books, and More: A Winter Legal RoundupThis winter, key court cases tackled school desegregation, parental rights, religious charters, LGBTQ+ policies, and education funding.
Law & Courts Judge Orders Trump Admin. to Restore Teacher-Prep Grants It SlashedThe administration must reinstate funding for all recipients of three federal grants supporting educator development, a judge ruled.
Law & Courts Parents Sue Ed. Dept. Over Civil Rights Office Layoffs and DelaysThe lawsuit argues that the mass layoffs leave students and families with little recourse for discrimination complaints.
Law & Courts Parents Lose Appeal in Gender Case Trump Called ‘Child Abuse’A federal appeals court ruled against parents who contend their school district aided a "secret" gender transition of their child.
Law & Courts States Sue Trump Over Education Department FiringsThe challenge from 21 attorneys general comes just days after the Education Department announced it would shrink its staff by roughly half.
Law & Courts Trump Admin. Backs Catholic Charter, LGBTQ+ Lesson Opt-Outs in Supreme CourtThe Trump administration filed briefs supporting conservative positions in two big cases on religion and public education
