Following disruptive pro-Palestinian protests in spring 2024, the federal government, state lawmakers and college officials have imposed sweeping restrictions on student speech, resulting in a wave of ...

A federal appeals court in New York today upheld the decision of a lower court that Lewis B. Mills high school, in Burlington, Connecticut, was within its rights to discipline a senior student for ...

If you’re a public school student, you don’t check your constitutional rights at the schoolhouse doors. But whether schools can punish you for speaking out depends on when, where, and how you decide ...

The Kansas Legislature has decided that some speech deserves government protection. Other speech deserves government persecution. The votes have come throughout the session, each one worse than the ...

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Broadly speaking, California law requires minors to attend school, but it also protects students’ rights to speak out.

A silent protest led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that defined students’ free speech rights. The court’s 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that “students do not leave their ...

Mr. Sunstein is a law professor at Harvard and the author of “Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide.” Last spring, protests at numerous American universities, prompted by the ongoing conflict in the ...

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- Students at UWL are planning a rally Friday in response to rhetoric from President Trump threatening federal funding to schools that allow "illegal protests." Flyers posted to ...