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Authors of โ€˜And Tango Makes Threeโ€™ Sue Over Florida Law Driving Book Bans

The authors of a picture book about a penguin family with two fathers sued the state and a school district that removed the book from libraries.

A lawsuit targeted a school district and the State of Florida over restricting access to a book about a penguin family with two fathers.

The Common App Will Now Hide a Student's Race and Ethnicity

If requested, the Common App will conceal basic information on race and ethnicity โ€” a move that could help schools if the Supreme Court ends affirmative action.

Universities are preparing for the possible end of race-conscious affirmative action.

Elite Virginia High Schoolโ€™s Admissions Policy Does Not Discriminate, Court Rules

Parents had objected to Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia changing its admissions policies, including getting rid of an exam. The case appears headed for the Supreme Court.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va.

Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Rule Penalizes Native Language Speakers

An Education Department regulation penalizes Fulbright-Hays applicants if they grew up speaking the language of their proposed country for research. Lawsuits have followed.

โ€œAt first, I was just in disbelief,โ€ Veronica Gonzalez, a doctoral student at the University of California-Irvine, recalled in an interview. โ€œThen I was incensed.โ€

Parents of L.S.U. Student Who Died After Hazing Awarded $6.1 Million

Maxwell Gruver, 18, died in 2017 after a fraternity event in which pledges were forced to chug alcohol. His parents said the juryโ€™s verdict was a significant step in their goal to end hazing.

Stephen and Rae Ann Gruver said the funds from the verdict over their sonโ€™s death would help support the mission of the Max Gruver Foundation, an organization committed to ending hazing on college campuses.

School District Sued Over Handling of Studentโ€™s Pledge of Allegiance Protest

A South Carolina high school teacher shoved a student against a wall after the teenager refused to stop for the pledge on her way to class, according to a federal lawsuit.

Marissa Barnwellโ€™s parents said that they filed a federal lawsuit over how school officials handled their daughterโ€™s refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Student Loan Case Before Supreme Court Poses Pressing Question: Who Can Sue?

Prompted by a 2007 decision giving states โ€œspecial solicitude,โ€ partisan challenges to federal programs from coalitions of state attorneys general have surged.

Activists in Washington urging President Biden last year to cancel student debt. Six Republican-led states have a challenge to the debt cancellation pending before the Supreme Court.

After Lecturer Sues, Hamline University Walks Back Its โ€˜Islamophobicโ€™ Comments

In an about-face, the school said that using the term was โ€œflawedโ€ and that respect for Muslim students should not have superseded academic freedom.

In October, Erika Lรณpez Prater, an adjunct professor at Hamline University, warned students before showing a reverential image of the holy figure created in the 14th-century.
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