Every South County school district will be using an influx of federal money over the next three years to address challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, in what one local school leader is calling a “once-in-a-generation opportunity for schools.”
Like county and municipal governments that received federal CARES Act funds to mitigate the pandemic, school districts across the country have also received federal funds called Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, or ESSER.
The federal government has passed three relief packages in response to COVID-19 since March 2020, including support for elementary and secondary education.
The legislation amounts to more than $193 billion in aid to schools, with the majority of relief funds disbursed based on Title 1, the funds districts receive based on percentage of low-income students.
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Last week the Supreme Court heard its most important student speech case in nearly a half-century. The case took into question whether schools can punish students for speech that occurred off campus or online. The case has the ability to transform student speech rights in every public school nationwide. No matter what decision is made in the case, the state of Utah ought to make a statement to the nation by passing legislation in defense of student speech.
To begin to understand student speech rights nationwide, you must first look at the case of
Tinker versus the Des Moines Independent Community School District. A woman named Mary Beth Tinker made one choice that revolutionized how the government views student rights nationwide. Motivated by strong emotions and wanting to express her First Amendment rights, she wore a black armband to school, an action which escalated to the suspension of five children and a 7-2 decision in the United States Supreme Cou
Chemerinsky: SCOTUS weighs whether freedom of speech applies to students off campus using social media
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear its last oral arguments of the term in April, and it will finish with a First Amendment case of potential great importance.
Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. involves whether a student can be punished for speech on social media over the weekend.
The court has not decided a student speech case in over a decade, and this will be the first to address the ability of schools to impose discipline for speech out of school and over social media.
Court: Principal Was Right to Ban Fourth-Grader s Pro-Trans Essay
The principal had said that it s not age-appropriate to discuss transgenders, lesbians and drag queens outside of the home.” March 03 2021 4:32 PM EST
An elementary school principal in South Carolina was correct when she decided to keep a student s supportive essay about transgender people out of a school publication, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
As part of an assignment to write a 100-word essay on “society,” a 10-year-old fourth-grader wrote about being nice to trans people. “I don’t know if you know this but peoples view on Tran’s genders is an issue,” the essay read. “People think that men should not drees like a women, and saying mean things. They think that they are choosing the wrong thing in life. In the world people can choose who they want.”
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A federal appeals court has settled the latest tug-of-war between a student’s First Amendment right to free speech and her school district’s ability to limit that speech in the interests of furthering the school’s educational purposes. In
Robertson v. Anderson Mill Elementary School, 2021 WL 786631 (4th Cir. Mar. 2, 2021) the Fourth Circuit was called upon to decide whether a school district had properly exercised its authority to control the educational process by refusing to publish a fourth-grader’s “essay to society” on LGBTQ equality.
The case involved an assignment given to fourth grade students at Anderson Mill Elementary School in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The teacher required the students to write an “essay to society” on any topic of their choosing. The essays would then be compiled into a booklet and distributed to each fourth grade classroom, and copies would be sent home with the