by Jennifer Childress | Nov 19, 2018 | Legal Developments
The Fifth Circuit has ruled that the Texas Education Agency violated the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) when it reduced state special education funding in 2012. On January 17, 2017, the United States Department of Education (“Department”) issued a...
by Jennifer Childress | Sep 26, 2018 | Legal Developments, Students
On October 8, 2013, a group of seventh grade girls (twelve and thirteen-year-olds) were handcuffed, arrested, and transported in police vehicles from their middle school campus to the police station. An assistant principal had asked a school resource officer (“SRO”)...
by Jennifer Childress | Aug 20, 2018 | Federal Guidance, Legal Developments
Last week, a federal court upheld the Texas Campus Carry law, which allows professors to carry concealed weapons onto college campuses. The ruling was the latest update in a lawsuit filed in 2015 by several professors at the University of Texas at Austin who oppose...
