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CTU board again votes to put VP Dallas on trial Call it CTU deja vu. Read more... Attorney for Rockford School District: Page Park lawsuit 'lacks merit' The district will ask a judge tomorrow to dismiss the lawsuit. Read more... Lawmakers side with media in photo battle with IHSA Lawmakers sided with the media Wednesday in the battle between newspapers and the Illinois High School Association, but not before again urging the two sides to settle the dispute on their own. Read more... Bolingbrook freshman suing over expulsion from high school A freshman has filed a lawsuit against Bolingbrook High School, saying he was expelled in February because he is Mexican-American. Read more... Judge lets conservative group defend 'moment of silence' law federal judge Monday welcomed the input of a conservative group seeking to uphold the "moment of silence" law in Illinois that mandates a moment of silence in Illinois schools for students to pray or meditate. Read more... ACLU joins legal battle over state moment-of-silence law The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois on Thursday jumped into the legal battle to bar enforcement of a law requiring a moment of silence in public schools statewide. Read more... 'They're trying to make me the fall guy' SCHOOL'S WATER WOES | City inspector may be disciplined for faxing report on dangerous plumbing to principal Read more... Dispute between IHSA, media photographers part of growing trend When Metamora's Brennen VanMieghem kicked a game-winning field goal in the weekend's state high school football championships, photographers assigned to cover the action for his hometown paper weren't on the field. Read more... Press association sues IHSA over photo rights Newspapers say IHSA rules unreasonable, unfair Read more... Suit fails to block moment of silence But atheist's case can go forward Read more... District unshaken by racial incident But Gurnee teen's act tied by some to national tensions A Warren Township High School student was charged with disorderly conduct for making "racially charged" statements to two female students, police said. The student drove into a campus parking lot with a noose hanging from... Read more... Jena 6 Defendant Released on Bail JENA, La. - Mychal Bell exited the courthouse, free for the first time in 10 months. He was cheered by a crowd that included the Rev. Al Sharpton. But Bell's case is far from over: he's due back in court next week... Read more... Dist. 204 will pay double for high school land Indian Prairie Unit District 204 will have to pay double what it was offering in order to purchase land for Metea Valley High School, a jury decided... Read more... Bias suit against Elgin district racks up millions as it drags on The case against an Elgin school district moves ever so slowly even as a federal judge urges both sides to begin settlement talks... Read more... Judge OKs students' Hitler youth buttons NEWARK, N.J. -- Two students in northern New Jersey can wear buttons featuring a picture of Hitler youth to protest a school uniform policy, a federal judge ruled Thursday... Read more... 2nd girl gets year of probation for anti-gay fliers A second teenage girl was sentenced Wednesday to 1 year of probation and ordered to write letters of apology for distributing anti-gay fliers earlier this year outside Crystal Lake South High School... Read more... Bloggers inspire new civil rights wave Jena 6 protest nurtured on Web There is no single leader. There is no agreed schedule. Organizers aren't even certain where everyone is supposed to gather, let alone use the restroom. The only thing that is known for sure is that thousands of protesters are boarding buses at churches, colleges and community centers across the country this week, headed for this tiny dot on the map of central Louisiana... Read more... Opinion: Racially biased justice still infects American courtrooms They cut down the "white tree" at Jena High School last month -- about a year too late. On Thursday, a mass civil rights march will take place in Jena, La., demanding justice for the Jena Six -- the six young men unjustly charged with... Read more... 'Jena 6' conviction vacated Louisiana beating case stirred cries of racism HOUSTON - With the prospect of a major national civil rights protest looming next week in the central Louisiana town of Jena, a state appeals court on Friday abruptly vacated the... Read more... Ex-teacher not guilty of sex abuse A Kane County judge Tuesday acquitted a former West Aurora High School teacher of fondling a 53-year-old woman in his home in... Read more... Family sues school over knife search ADDISON | Says official entered home without telling parents Steve and Kelly D'Allesandro say the dean at their son's junior high school in Addison was way out of line when he entered the family's home while Kelly was in the shower -- without letting her know he was there with her son -- and gathered evidence for... Read more... Teen gets 11 years for sex assaults A Schaumburg teenager pleaded guilty Thursday to molesting a 7-year-old boy and having sexual interactions with four female mentally disabled Hoffman Estates High School students... Read more... Parents protest expulsion of sons Cultural differences cited in BB gun case In a lawsuit challenging the school board's decision to expel two would-be Naperville North High School freshmen, two Korean families are arguing that a cultural misunderstanding led the boys to play with a BB gun on a school bus in May... Read more... SD 230's Manzi report answers few new questions One bright spot: While still $25 million over budget, the project cost $3 million less than originally thought The infamous overbudget renovation and expansion of Andrew, Sandburg and Stagg high schools was not quite as over budget as everyone believed, a school attorney said this week... Read more... Judge urges U-46 suit settlement A federal judge on Wednesday strongly advised the lawyers in the Elgin Area School District U-46 racial bias lawsuit to discuss settlement, warning them they were entering a very costly, lengthy phase of the already costly, lengthy proceedings... Read more... Principal to receive $32,000 in severance Illini Bluffs administrator resigned amid rape charges GLASFORD - Illini Bluffs Community Unit School District 327 will pay more than $32,000 in an agreement that essentially purchases the resignation of its former elementary school principal... Read more... Retired teachers sue over benefits Suit alleges Dist. 87 reneged on paying health insurance premiums Ninety-one retired teachers are suing Glenbard High School District 87 to force the school system to continue paying their full health insurance premiums. The former educators argue the district promised... Read more... Parents of boy hit by car add school district to suit The parents of a Shiloh school second-grader, killed when an elderly woman crashed through a cafeteria wall in January, on Thursday added the school district, its board and the O'Fallon construction company that built the wall to their wrongful death lawsuit... Read more... Interviews add to cost of U-46 bias suit The legal bills continue to mount in the discrimination lawsuit against Elgin Area School District U-46 as lawyers interview witnesses this summer. Attorneys from the district's Chicago and Washington law firms have interviewed five witnesses and some of the... Read more... Civil rights lawyer dies at 100 RICHMOND, Va. - Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, has died at age 100... Read more... The case of the missing e-mails in U-46? Lawyers debate if unsaved 2005 files will stall bias suit Elgin Area School District U-46 officials say they have turned over nearly a half-million documents and 37 gigabytes of evidence to the lawyers of the families accusing the district of racial bias. But with the federal lawsuit's deadline for the exchange of... Read more... U-46 Scout decision a church-state issue Ruling on Scouts, other religious club part of evangelical attorney's influence Legal heavyweights brought the national battle over separation of church and state to Elgin Area School District U-46 last fall. Scout troops across the Fox Valley now will pay the price. U-46 officials say one of the... Read more... Firm accused of minority front in schools' landscaping pact MAIL FRAUD CHARGE | Scheme devised together, feds say A landscaping firm owned by a white man defrauded the Chicago Public Schools by using a minority-owned firm as a front on a $1.5 million contract meant for minority businesses... Read more... Judge sides with District 201 in case of teacher's aide fired over nude Web links Won't force it to rehire teachers' aide BELLEVILLE --A teacher's aide who lost his job because he distributed an Internet address to Belleville East High School special education students that had links to sites with photos of... Read more... Schools held autistic boy 'hostage': judges NAPERVILLE | District withheld communication device to impose education plan; parents sued Two judges have said Naperville School District 203 held an autistic student "hostage" to "blackmail" his parents into agreeing to its plans for... Read more... U-46 parties dispute who pays for e-mails Both sides of lawsuit say other should pay It could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for Elgin Area School District U-46 to retrieve e-mail evidence for the families suing the district for racial... Read more... Lawsuit: Girls abused at detention hall JACKSON, Miss. --Girls at a Mississippi detention center were sometimes shackled for 12 hours a day and subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse," a youth advocacy group claims in a federal lawsuit... Read more... U-46 lawsuit process heats up Lawyers continue to bicker over evidence in the 2¨-year-old racial discrimination lawsuit against Elgin Area School District U-46. District lawyers claim the lawyers for the Elgin families suing the district have made the process of exchanging possible evidence more difficult than... Read more... Former contractor sues Chicago schools CHICAGO -- Officials from a Chicago-based computer company filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Chicago Public Schools, alleging that a $30 million contract it had with the school system was Read more... Huntley schools may sue Kane State education officials say they won't budge on a technical issue that is costing Huntley District 158 millions of dollars in state aid. So school board members want their attorneys to see... Read more... School sues Wheeling Permit delay runs cost up $500,000, according to suit Read more... |
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