Tennessee’s Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on the legality of a state school-choice pilot program, 16 months after two school districts filed a lawsuit to shut the program down.
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A group of Virginia parents filed a federal lawsuit against the Loudoun County School Board, citing allegations that it violated students free speech rights.
The suit, represented by the Chicago-based Liberty Justice Center, targets the school board s bias reporting system that encourages students to report on people s perceived biases anonymously. Defendants also argued against having only students of color and those who expressly attest to being allies of historically oppressed groups
be eligible to participate in the schools Equity Ambassadors Program. Our kids have the right to develop their own opinions, free from indoctrination and school-sanctioned bullying. Instead of opening young minds, Loudoun County school leaders are policing them. This is not education; it is coercion, Scott Mineo, parent of a Loudoun County high school student and founder of Parents Against Critical Theory, said.
Frank Mautino of Spring Valley was a Democratic state representative from 1991 to 2015, when he was elected state auditor general. The campaign committee of former state Rep. Frank Mautino, who is now the Illinois auditor general, violated state law when it spent campaign funds on gas and car repairs for personal vehicles, the Illinois Supreme Court decided Thursday, May 20. But the court did not find Mautino s committee violated a separate section of state election law that prohibits spending more than fair market value for goods and services. However, since Mautino s committee was dissolved in 2015, any fines levied against it would likely not be collected, a spokesperson for the Illinois State Board of Elections said Thursday.
The Liberty Justice Center, a nonprofit, public-interest law firm, is offering its services to students and parents who feel themselves being overrun by critical theory curriculum enactments.