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After the Trump Administration rightly banned Critical Race Theory (CRT) training in the federal workforce in late 2020, the Biden–Harris Administration swiftly undid the prohibition in its first day in office. The reversal sent the momentum for combatting CRT to the states, where legislatures and governors are currently considering the impact of CRT’s Marxist roots and intolerance of other ideas on K–12 school policies, such as student discipline and curricula.
Can the executives and legislators of the nation’s 50 states and the officials of the nearly 14,000 school boards determine the material that is taught in the public school classroom? Certainly. Just as state and local education officials have the authority to adopt and later change academic standards and lessons to include CRT and focus on “racialization” and “whiteness,” so, too, can educators create and recommend resources that acknowledge America’s promise of freedom and opportunity.R
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A case to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court April 28 presents one of those rare instances in which different LGBTQ groups are on opposite sides.
The case is Mahanoy v. B.L., an appeal that asks the Supreme Court to take a new look at a long-standing First Amendment precedent applying to public schools from 1969 and say whether it needs to be re-thought, given today s new social media and cyberbullying realities.
Both sides say the case, which has no LGBTQ-specific elements, could have important implications for LGBTQ students.
In friend-of-the-court briefs submitted in the case, different LGBTQ groups and leaders are taking different sides. Some argue that schools need the authority to discipline students for inappropriate messages even when those messages are delivered off-campus and after school. Others say students need protection from school authorities overreaching into the personal views and expressions of students.
An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case will be a major test of the First Amendment rights of K-12 public school students as well as the authority of school administrators to discipline students for cyberbullying, according to Benjamin Holden, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign journalism professor and media law scholar who studies free speech issues.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A U.S. Supreme Court case set for oral argument next week will be a major test of the First Amendment rights of K-12 public school students and school administrators’ power to discipline them for cyberbullying, according to a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign media law scholar who studies free speech issues.