Join us for a lunch and learn that will address discipline of all students and the rules specific to special education students. Special Education attorneys Rebecca Young and Alyssa Hicks will discuss how school districts can develop legally-defensible practices, procedures, policies and guidelines regarding the discipline of students with disabilities under the IDEA and Section 504. Topics to be … [Read more...] about Special Education Discipline
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Third Circuit Tells Schools Hands Off Students’ Off-Campus Speech
In a controversial June 30, 2020 decision, the three judges of the Third Circuit re-interpreted the reach of public schools’ power to regulate, or to discipline students for, off-campus speech posted online. The result of this decision is that within Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, the states in the Third Circuit, students’ off-campus speech, even if crude, offensive, or puerile, is … [Read more...] about Third Circuit Tells Schools Hands Off Students’ Off-Campus Speech
