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ed100.org
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| | | | | September 17 is Constitution Day. Delegates to the founding convention signed our essential national document on this date in 1787. Students learn about it in school. You remember, right? Let's review. | |
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splc.org
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| | | | | In a recent Education Week blog post, author and education reformer Sam Chaltain asked a question that, until recently, seemed beyond doubt: Do students in charter schools have First Amendment rights?The answer is in some doubt as a result of a pair of court rulings absolving charter schools of violating the rights of students or employees.Unlike truly private schools, charter schools derive their funding and their legal existence from local school districts (that's where the "charter" comes from). School boards hold life-and-death authority over these schools, and state laws generally require that (unlike truly private schools) they accept all qualified applicants.Charter schools do enjoy a measure of separation from the government because they are statutor... | |
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amylhowe.com
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| | | | | The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that public officials who post about topics relating to their work on their personal social media accounts are acting on behalf of the government, and therefore can be held liable for violating the First Amendment when they block their critics, only when they have the power to speak on... Read More | |
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www.thefire.org
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| | | The Supreme Court ruled in 1937 that "the holding of meetings for peaceable political action cannot be proscribed." | ||
