Jessica Tapia will receive $360,000 from the Jurupa Unified School District after she was fired in 2022 and accused of proselytizing during class.
UVALDE, Texas, July 7, 2023 — The Uvalde school district has lifted its ban on a concerned parent after the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression stood up for his right to speak out at school board meetings. The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District banned Adam Martinez, a father of two students, from district property for two years for questioning the qualifications of a recently hired school district police officer. In May, FIRE sent a letter threatening to sue if the district did not lift the unconstitutional ban. Yeste ...
UPDATED (June 4, 2024): Victory! On May 28, FIRE followed up its letter to the Florida Department of Education with a public comment concerning its proposed library media training document, which misinterpreted state law governing school library materials. The following day, before approving the training document, the DOE amended the inaccurate slide flagged by FIRE. The amended materials now accurately reflect the law and make clear that districts must evaluate challenged library books’ suitability for students of different grade levels, rat ...
Bishop Sycamore, the high school football team that mysteriously found itself mismatched with a top-ranked opponent on ESPN, has fired its coach as four opponents canceled games.
The Florida legislature has once again chosen to limit its citizens’ free speech rights — this time by passing House Bill 3, which severely restricts Floridians’ access to websites and content on the internet. HB 3 bans most minors from having accounts on social media platforms and forces others to get parental consent. The bill also requires adult websites which contain material “harmful to minors” to conduct age verification on every user — not just minors — who visit such sites. ...
COLUMBIA, S.C., June 11, 2024 —The University of South Carolina has earned a “green light” rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Green light ratings are reserved for institutions with no written policies that seriously threaten student free speech rights. USC is one of only 66 colleges and universities nationwide to earn this rating from FIRE. During summer 2023, USC had an overall “yellow light” rating for maintaining several policies that could be used to restrict free expression. After multiple conversati ...
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A former 'teacher of the year' award winner in Texas will be fired from her high school after she was charged with having a relationship with a teenage female student for two years.
They can help students prepare their cases and advocate for themselves, while watching to make sure the school’s written procedures are followed.
A teacher in New York City who was fired after sending nearly 30,000 late-night texts to a young girl is working in another school.