5/21/2025 11:55:35 AM Atlanta's Influence on Federal Public Housing Laws By Jeffrey Nix Atlanta was both the first city in the United States to develop federal public housing projects, and the first to do away with them. ...
4/23/2025 11:30:35 AM COVID-19 Impacted the Professional Development of Young Lawyers! By Jeffrey Nix The COVID-19 Pandemic had a profound impact upon the development of young lawyers - and judges are taking notice! Most recently, judges...
9/23/2024 10:15:53 AM SC High Court Invalidates School Voucher Program By Taylor Duma The South Carolina Supreme Court has decided in a 3-2 opinion that a program allowing parents to use public funds to pay for private...
9/11/2024 11:00:19 AM Another Abuse Claim Shows Familiar Pattern of Predatory Grooming By Taylor Duma A claim of sexual abuse against a Minnesota teacher details a common pattern of predatory grooming. There’s no way to know at this point...
8/31/2024 10:30:18 AM Courts Continue to Rule Against US DOE By Taylor Duma Another federal court, this one in Texas, has ruled that the U.S. Department of Education cannot enforce its most recent Title IX...
8/15/2024 10:00:05 AM Avoiding Buyer's Remorse With AI Tools By Mitzi Hill Attached is a story about how AI grading tools exposed school districts in California to embarrassing failures (including giving students...
8/14/2024 10:45:00 AM Federal Court: Treating Misgendering as Bullying Does Not Violate Students’ Free Speech By Taylor Duma The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently considered a school's anti-bullying policy that prohibits “discriminatory...
8/12/2024 10:35:00 AM Lessons from a Fired Teacher By Taylor Duma A case from the New Jersey Supreme Court has some important lessons for youth organizations. The immediate issue involved defamation...
8/10/2024 9:45:00 AM Another Court Enjoins Title IX Regulations By Taylor Duma A Missouri district court has issued an injunction preventing enforcement of the most recent U.S. Department of Education regulations...
8/5/2024 10:30:13 AM Going Retro with One-Room Schoolhouses By Taylor Duma A new trend that I had missed is the rise in “microschools,” or schools with one teacher and fewer than 30 students. Essentially, these...
7/29/2024 10:05:54 AM Louisiana Mandated Reporters: Do Not Report to Supervisors First By Taylor Duma The Louisiana Attorney General recently issued an opinion that school rules requiring mandated reporters to come to supervisors first...
7/17/2024 10:15:43 AM District Courts Enjoin Title IX Interpretation By Taylor Duma A district court judge in Mississippi has enjoined the federal government's interpretation of “sex” in Title IX as including “gender...