Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Education Law : From 10/01/06 To 07/01/07
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law |
| Title: | Parents Involved in Cmty. Sch. v. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1 |
| Date: | 06/28/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-908 |
| Summary: | In cases involving school districts that voluntarily adopted student assignment plans that rely upon race to determine which public schools certain children may attend, court of appeals' decisions upholding the plans are reversed as, under strict scrutiny, the districts failed to show that the interest they sought to achieve justified the means chosen. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law |
| Title: | Morse v. Frederick |
| Date: | 06/25/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-278 |
| Summary: | Schools may take steps to safeguard those entrusted to their care from speech that can reasonably be regarded as encouraging illegal drug use. Thus, school officials in the case at hand did not violate the First Amendment by confiscating a banner stating "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" and suspending the student responsible for it. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Sports Law |
| Title: | Tennessee Secondary Sch. Athletic Ass'n v. Brentwood Academy. |
| Date: | 06/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 06-427 |
| Summary: | The enforcement of a rule prohibiting high school coaches from recruiting middle school athletes does not violate the First Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Education Law, Health Law |
| Title: | Winkelman v. Parma City Sch. Dist. |
| Date: | 05/21/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-983 |
| Summary: | The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) grants parents independent, enforceable rights, which are not limited to procedural and reimbursement-related matters, but encompass the entitlement to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for their child. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Law |
| Title: | Zuni Pub. Sch. Dist. v. Dep't of Educ. |
| Date: | 04/17/07 |
| Case Number: | 05-1508 |
| Summary: | The federal Impact Aid Act sets forth a method that the Secretary of Education is to use when determining whether a state's public school funding program "equalizes expenditures" throughout the state, for purposes of allowing offsets of federal impact aid to individual school districts. In a dispute over the proper equalization formula, lower courts' rejection of school districts' challenges to the Secretary of Education's applicable regulations is affirmed as certain statutory language in the Act permits the Secretary to identify the school districts that should be "disregard[ed]" by looking to the number of the district's pupils, as well as to the size of the district's expenditures per pupil. |