Is Scholastic Using Teachers as Salespeople? Justices Won't Rule
Justices declined to hear Scholastic's appeal of the state's decision that ruled teachers as "representatives" for the company. Read Full Post >
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October 10, 2012
July 12, 2012
Story Examines Health-Care Ruling's Impact on Education Laws
An Education Week story examines the ways the Supreme Court's health-care decision may encourage the states to challenge conditions imposed by federal education laws passed under Congress's spending authority. Read Full Post >
June 28, 2012
Health-Care Ruling Has Implications for Education Spending
The part of the U.S. Supreme Court's historic health-care decision holding that the that the new law's Medicaid expansion was unduly coercive on the states could have implications for federal education spending programs. Read Full Post >
May 21, 2012
Justices Decline Challenge to Kentucky Athletics Rule
The U.S. Supreme Court declined review of a Kentucky high school sports rule that restricts the amount of merit-based financial aid students may receive and remain eligible for competition. Read Full Post >
March 28, 2012
In Health-Law Arguments, Justices Also Weigh Education Spending
The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether upholding an expansion of the Medicaid program would give the federal government limitless powers to impose conditions on the states when they accept money in other areas, such as education. Read Full Post >
March 26, 2012
Supreme Court Declines Appeals on Religion in Public Education
The justices turn away cases about a charter school's efforts to use religious texts in its curriculum, and a public school teacher's classroom display of banners mentioning God. Read Full Post >
February 21, 2012
Study: More Education May Not Lead to Support For Affirmative Action
Just as race-based affirmative action in higher education is set to make another appearance in the U.S. Supreme Court, new research from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor's Geoffrey T. Wodtke suggests, among other things, that highly educated people are not more likely than the less-educated to support racial preferences like affirmative action. Read Full Post >
February 21, 2012
Supreme Court to Revisit Race in College Admissions
In a dispute being closely watched by the K-12 community, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a major new case involving the consideration of race in college admissions. Read Full Post >
January 17, 2012
Justices Decline to Weigh Prayers at School Board Meetings
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a school board in Delaware, which had its practice of reciting prayers before its public board meetings struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, in Philadelphia, Read Full Post >
December 01, 2011
U.S. Urges Supreme Court Not to Hear Special Education Case
The Obama administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up an appeal from a school district ordered to provide compensatory tutoring because it failed to identify a student's disability. Read Full Post >
