by Jennifer Childress | Aug 28, 2017 | Education News, Fresh Ideas, National
All of us at Legal Digest and Ed311 send our heartfelt prayers out to all of our friends and colleagues across our home state of Texas who have been and are being affected by Hurricane Harvey. For over 30 years, we have worked with each and every community in Texas to...
by Jennifer Childress | Aug 23, 2017 | Education News, National
Following the recent events in Charlottesville, Va., officials at the University of Texas in Austin decided to surreptitiously remove several Confederate monuments from the school campus this week. The removal of the statues began late at night on Sunday, August 20,...
by Jennifer Childress | Jul 24, 2017 | Education News, National
According to the American Immigration Council, each year approximately 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high school in the United States. The National School Boards Association (“NSBA”) has released updated guidance on serving undocumented students,...
by Jennifer Childress | Mar 29, 2017 | National
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that schools must give students with disabilities education plans that are “appropriately ambitious”, creating a precedent that could have a big bearing on special education students and school districts across the country. In the...
by Jennifer Childress | Feb 21, 2017 | Education News, National
The majority of Texas schools do not offer sex education to students, and those that do are not necessarily presenting students with accurate information, finds a recent study by the Texas Freedom Network. The report, which was released this week, states that 25...
by Jennifer Childress | Feb 21, 2017 | Education News, National, Transgender
The New York Times reports that the Drumpf administration will not pursue action against the injunction that kept in place a ban on transgenders’ use of bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. The injunction was issued last August, after suit was...
