Lawsuit targets ‘locator’ chips in Texas student IDs
To 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez, the tracking microchip embedded in her student ID card is a "mark of the beast," sacrilege to her Christian faith—not to mention how it…
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Same-sex classes popular as more public schools split up boys and girls
Robin Gilbert didn't set out to confront gender stereotypes when she split up the boys and girls at her elementary school in rural southwestern Idaho.
Companies respond to ACLU’s ‘Don’t Filter Me’ campaign
Web filtering software companies have started to respond to the American Civil Liberties Union’s call to remove filters that block websites with content geared toward the lesbian, gay,…
Milwaukee’s voucher program discriminates based on disabilities, ACLU says
Milwaukee's voucher system, which allows low-income students to attend private schools using tax dollars, discriminates based on disability, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by the American Civil…
ACLU demands high schools remove anti-gay filters
Several public high schools on March 28 received letters from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), as well as local ACLU arms from Michigan, Kansas, and western Missouri,…
ACLU says Washington schools can’t seize student phones
The American Civil Liberties Union has objected to a proposed new policy in a Washington state school system that would let school officials seize students’ cell phones if…
Groups sue Mass. over newly expanded obscenity law
A coalition of booksellers and internet content providers filed a federal lawsuit on July 13, challenging an expansion of Massachusetts' obscenity law to include electronic communications that might…
U.S. court weighs school discipline for lewd web posts
A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia heard arguments June 3 over whether school officials can discipline students for making lewd, harassing, or juvenile internet postings from off-campus computers…